Robin Eley

Whilst in Sydney I went to the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize and was really impressed by the work of Robin Eley. He seemed to capture the vulnerability of his nude sitter so well. The top painting is entitled 'The shadows of his former self' due to the sitter becoming retired. The other image is a much more confidence laced self portrait.

Del Kathryn Barton

I have recently been in Sydney, a city which has a thriving arts scene. One of my favourite places to visit whilst there was the Sydney Art Gallery which houses a very clever changing set of collections. I particularly liked the modern art on the lower floor of the gallery and the work of Del Kathryn Barton really stood out to me. Her pieces are highly labour intensive and detailed and due to this they are wonderful to look at. I really liked the multi layered style in which she works.

Yelena Bryksenkova

Beautiful illustration from Yelena Bryksenkova. From her simple drawings to more complicated paintings, some amazing work.

Greg 'Craola' Simkins

Greg Simkins work is fantastical and surreal. He has some excellent graffiti work too.

James Jean

James Jean has some really incredible work. Currently based in LA his painting seems so instinctive and is exceedingly beautiful.

Lee Price

Pretty pleased to have three new followers to show a new artist that I have found! Lee Price reminds me both of Will Cotton and Harriet White. She works from photographs of herself gorging on junk food in intimate situations. Really interesting and sometimes a little intrusive paintings.

Boo Ritson

Boo Ritson has been clever enough to take a simple idea and execute it well. Probably most known for her album cover for The Maccabees I love her literally painted people.

Lucy Boden

Lucy Boden is the creator of some beautiful child friendly illustration.

Orchid

A quickish painting that I did earlier.

Maya Hayuk

I really love the colour and vibrancy that Maya Hayuk applies to her work.

Dan Witz

Dan Witz uses incredibly detailed stickers to create realistic and images which often appear completely 3d. He is also a very talented painter, his paintings of mosh pits in particular are well worth a look. The candle stickers above were created to remember the events of September the 11th.

Julian Kimmings

Julian Kimmings is a designer/painter/graffiti artist. His works are multilayered with aerosol, acrylic and graphite making for some very interesting work.

Sage Vaughn

I first found Sage Vaughn's work when watching the video for NASA Way Down, I really loved the birds in the video and he has a lot of equally interesting work here.

Chloe Early

I signed up to the Corey Helford newsletter and was pretty intrigued by their forthcoming show featuring Chloe Early. I really love the style of her work with the strong use of paint and colour. She studied in Dublin and has since been exhibiting her work on a world wide basis.

Upfest at Brisfest

Had a really nice weekend helping out at Brisfest with Upfest who were running a kids painting wall. The wall originally had an outline of Bristol's landmarks on but this was eventually lost due to artistic enthusiasm! Everyone had a lot of fun though, here are a few photos showing the development.

Michael Gillette

I absolutely love the work of Michael Gillette, I just saw him again on 'It's nice that' but remember the Bond covers coming out a while ago and really liking the retro styling.

Mimi Leung

For once I am writing about something in advance of it finishing! Saw this on the Here gallery website and thought it well worth a mention. A solo exhibition of the work of Mimi Leung on from now until the 9th of October.

National Portrait Gallery

Whilst in London over the weekend I popped into the National Portrait Gallery to look at the annual BP Portrait Award show. I was really impressed with the standard of work and the winning portrait was absolutely harrowing but also well worth seeing. Here is an image of one of the other portraits, the exhibition is on until the 19th of September and is well worth catching if you are able to.