Current Artist Representation
Chris Levine
“Light is a force of life, and with respect to this in the creative process, Chris’ work has a spiritual context and an edge or pertinence - imagery that seems to invite further questioning beyond the immediate reaction - its as if another sensory realm is opening in our experience of his work. His distinctive visual language and seemingly effortless control over his technological media has differentiated his work from the mainstream. His images have resonant power that is both highly original and super modern.”
Michael Bracewell.
Gerald Laing
“It is the role of the artist to reiterate humanist concerns by pushing aside the veil of history which , cobweb-like obscures the living past, and comment on them for his generation. The paintings show us the dance of our own modern times, in a modern manner. The events are essentially commonplace, ordinary joys and sins, though their effect is often devastating.”
Gerald Laing writing about his own work in 2008.
Rupert Shrive
“The plastic-electric force emanating from Rupert Shrive’s work was impossible to resist once I discovered his work; the first time being quite by chance in a London gallery. Later, when we met in Paris I couldn’t help but notice how his work, through a language all of its own, had evolved. In his studio on the Canal St Martin, his work bears witness to Shrive’s commitment and his desire to bring it to life. He starts at a point where most artists have finished; after conscientiously executing his paintings he then launches into their destruction; screwing up, ripping mistreating and abusing, a kind of 3 dimensional drawing in search of a miraculous metamorphosis. From the chaos of decomposition comes Protean creation.”
Maria Farman
Damian Elwes
“I try to capture a moment of inspiration, to explore where creativity comes from, to make things dream-like. I feel as though I am painting someone’s mind and soul as much as their physical surroundings.” Using a combination of photographic and literary evidence, artists’ sketches and personal belongings, as well as long stints on the internet, Elwes turns historical record into compelling pictorial visions. He re-creates iconic modern painters’s studios, realized with a freshness and immediacy that the source material does not convey.
Elwes was born in London but now lives in Santa Monica, California.