New Arrivals

Felix Chadwick-Histed

I am a figurative artist who works primarily in oils, attempting to capture the tranquillity found in solitude. I paint impressionistically mainly from imagination, hoping to provide some moments of quiet in a buzzing, busy world. As I grew up as a young carer in the busy, bustling city of London, I found that moments to myself were things to be treasured and contained a unique beauty in them. In my art I now attempt to bottle and share them with the viewer. I have been painting since 2010, inspired by the works of Anthony Gormley, Léon Spilliaert, Henry Moore & the Impressionists.

Drood Fenrother

Drood Fenrother is a pseudonym for an outsider artist living in the quiet rural wilderness of the Cheviot Hills that straddle the Anglo-Scottish Borders.

The phantasmagorical scenes, lost characters and wondering monsters presented in the paintings, have the archetypal yet mysterious quality of folklore.

Their stories are not concluded, they are continuing to develop in the minds of the people that view them.

Hans Sandberg

Sandberg was born in Frederiksberg, Copenhagen in 1950, but lived most of his life on a farm in Helsingør. Throughout his turbulent adolescence, Sandberg created art as a way to calm his mind where hashish, illegal pills, alcohol and powerful prescribed psychotropic drugs failed to help. In 1979 he became a patient for the first time at Frederiksborg County Central Hospital,  diagnosed ‘a schizophrenic patient”. He started receiving incapacity benefits in 1989, which enabled him create art full-time.

Simone Pellegrini

Simone Pellegrini was born in Ancona, Italy in 1972, and now lives and works from his studio in Bologna. His career as an artist began en 1996, during his formative years in Urbino. Since 2003, he has held more than forty solo exhibitions. In the summer of 2023, an anthological exhibition dedicated to him is inaugurating in Lugano by MUSEC - Museo delle Culture.

Paul Benney

Paul Benney has worked both in the United States and United Kingdom. His paintings are represented in many notable public collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, The National Gallery of Australia, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, NYC and The National Portrait Gallery in London, alongside many prominent private and corporate collections.

Adam Grippo

Adam Grippo’s images are representative of daily visualizations that he experiences on a regular basis. We are witness here, to an unusual iconography, the symbol of which are sometimes difficult for us to decode. These are meticulously crafted drawings in most cases in black and white but often with a small accent of color. They are maps of the mind which have some repetitive imagery and remain mysterious to those who view them. He creates these drawings standing up for as long as 10 hours at a time.

Lydia

Lydia is 79 years old and has had a lifelong struggle with schizophrenia. She has been institutionalised since 2004.

In 2020 she was encouraged to draw by her daughter Sally who noticed a notepad and some felt tips sitting on a nearby table. Sally perched the pad onto Lydia’s lap and invited her to choose a colour. She chose pink, studying the quality of how the pen felt in her hands for several minutes before removing the top and making her first mark.

Since then Lydia has produced a drawing every week.

Freda Köhler

The German artist, Freda Köhler produced a body of compelling visionary paintings and drawings, only a fraction of which seem to have survived. She signed her works, ‘Sieg-bert’, which in old German means ‘bright victory’; a sign of the revelatory messages in her art and, perhaps, the name of her spirit guide. The titles of many of the works, and the hand-written ‘explanatory’ text on the verso of some of them, certainly suggests a mediumistic source. Botanical forms dominate. They metamorphose and seemingly reveal cosmic messages.

Jon Sarkin

“One thing I know: my art gives up its secrets uneasily, like a magician jealously guarding his tricks' mechanics. I know when I've accomplished a valid work when I'm sure the viewer will never tire of looking at it.”
– Jon Sarkin

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