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1683RP-T-1942-5
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1987RP-P-OB-101.320
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2016Caitlyn Murphy's paintings elevate the charm of everyday life
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2015Grace Helmer’s brilliant paintings of modern details and everyday life
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2016Dan Witz: Mosh Pits - an extraordinary series of paintings (yes, paintings)
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2020Tom Howse’s paintings ask us to let go our “ego-driven self-destruction” and embrace the universe as a whole
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2023Alexander Appleby’s paintings honour the rugged terrain of northern England
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2016Jordan Kasey’s paintings depict languid characters that consume the canvas
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2019Zhongwen Hu on how “Illustration is an answer and painting is a question”
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2017Cristina BanBan’s layered paintings are inspired by the people around her
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2019Shirley Villavicencio tells her own story through painting
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2019Greg Ito’s meticulous portfolio of paintings explores “time, love, loss, hope, and tragedy”
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2020Beach goers and iconic logos get an ironic makeover in Marta Morientes’ witty paintings
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2021Eliot Greenwald talks us through his series Night Car, an eery compilation built on oddly shaped canvases
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2022Claire Milbrath’s new paintings and an ode to the Bichon: a symbol of joy, playfulness, love and companionship
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2014Art: Summery landscapes and tropical colours! Here's painter Guy Yanai
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2020“I remove all the imperfections”: Christopher Hartmann on his artificial and figurative practice
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2020Léa Maupetit’s joyful paintings feature colour, harmony and dachshunds
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2020Lexia Hachtmann's detailed paintings depict the objects we surround ourselves with
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2015Enormous, illustrative works by American painter Jonas Wood
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2021Nell Brookfield draws from the unsettling details around her to inspire hyper-stylised vignettes
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2015Painterly forms by artist and illustrator Bénédicte Muller
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2013Brighten The Corners' great new website for intriguing painter Clare Chapman
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2022Jessica Alazraki’s lavishly decorated kitchen tables are a feast for the eyes
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2017Artist Matthew Dettmer reinterprets the everyday through his sparsely-detailed paintings
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2025Georgia Semple’s contorted canvases mirror “the tension between perception and reality”
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2022Chronicling forgotten narratives of the Black diaspora, Esiri Erheriene-Essi paints a more diverse representation of history
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2014Vibrant, pebble-like paintings from Berlin-based artist Frau Grau
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2019Painter Igor Moritz's vivid paintings express the colours of inner life
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2023In Aistė Stancikaitė’s paintings, the ordinary and taboo are equally adorned
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2023Relive summer memories through Michele Poirier Mozzone's paintings of water
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2020Caitlyn Murphy’s heavenly paintings of the cling film-wrapped details of a dry cleaners
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2015Nina Chanel's paintings make sense of the mess of modern life
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2012Seriously good still-life nature vibes from artist Elizabeth Atterbury
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2023Phones phones phones: Jurell Cayetano’s paintings don’t just reflect the everyday lives of his friends, but all of us
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2022In his paintings, Ikeorah Chisom Chi-Fada seeks to respect and “deify” his fellow Nigerians
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2019Nettle Grellier's tender paintings show how we can occupy space as equals
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2018Ellie Wang’s explosive paintings reimagine commonplace objects
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2022Brian Alfred's latest exhibition ponders an Earth void of humans
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2011Katharina Grosse
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2019Illustrative painter Alice Tye on capturing the natural beauty of Japan
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2018Richie Culver explores the UK’s north and south divide in his humorous paintings
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2017Brian Lotti celebrates the commonplace in his personable paintings
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2013Art: Tristram Lansdowne's paintings will have you suspending all disbelief
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2022Hilary Balu’s impressive new series interrogates the colonial past of the DRC
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2020Conor Murgatroyd’s paintings celebrate the multiculturalism of Britain today
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2012The Graduates 2012 presents Grace Helmer and her narratively deep paintings
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2013Art: A new series of nudes from French painter Etienne Gros
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2021“Every portrait I paint, you can find me in it”: Roxanne Sauriol’s subjects are all derived from her past
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2021Hannah Kim paints scenes from her past houses, an execution of memory, grief and joy
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2019Diane Dal-Pra's paintings sit between the real and the abstract
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2020Riga-based illustrator Roberts Rurans on the evolution of his lively style
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2017Flo Brooks' paintings of liminality are those "almost everyone can relate with"
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2016Artist Beni Bischoff’s offbeat new book of paintings inspired by the Rambo films
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2012Take a trip with Jaime Brett Treadwell's weird and wonderful radical paintings
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2023Filippo Cegani’s plastic-sheened paintings interrogate the commodification of religious iconography
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2012Fred Tomaselli's huge explosions of colour and detail will boggle your mind, guaranteed
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2013Art: Amy Bennett paints incredibly realistic scenes from miniature sets
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1600Man met een vrouw op schoot
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2021Artist Bianca Fields leads us through her “super fast and rhythmic” style
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2012We love Gina Heyer's amazingly realistic paintings of an empty school
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2017Exploring physical and digital binaries with Austin Lee’s exuberantly animated paintings
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2022Foreboding figures and moody landscapes: painter Maïté Grandjouan on creating tension in her work
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2018Artist Martin Sloss on how arts organisation Project Ability inspired his passion for painting
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2012Treat your eyeballs to a double shot of Eric Shaw's awesome paintings
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2017The expressive paintings and sculptures of Joakim Ojanen
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2015Going Without Knowing: Geoff McFetridge on his leisure-centric approach to creativity
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2016Usarae Gul paints immigrant culture in Manchester
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2019Danny Romeril’s “spontaneous” paintings treat the world as a series of shapes and colours
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2018Em Cooper is a live-action filmmaker working with oil paint
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2013Art: Submit to Camilla Engman's fantastically dream-like paintings
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2019Michael Cox's latest paintings turn the artist's attention to the comfort of suburbia
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2025Michael Gao transforms furry culture with sincerity and horror
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2021Packages, CDs and scraps of food: Nicolás Romero Escalada paints the scenes of life over lockdown
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2019Arghavan Khosravi on her fruitful yet uncertain journey as an Iranian painter
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2015Serene but disquieting paintings by Sarah Schneider
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2018How Alice Tye tackled the daunting task of painting a portrait of Gilbert and George
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2022Bums, kettlebells and shapeups: Sally Kindberg explores tragicomedy in her exquisitely surreal paintings
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2015Artist Erin Armstrong’s relaxed figures are ethereal and richly toned
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2015Jackson Pollock's pouring work goes on show in a new exhibition at Tate Liverpool
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2015Fuzzy figures dance, row and frolic in Antonio Lee’s paintings
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2014Super beautiful work from Los Angeles-based painter Seth Armstrong
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2016Ian Davis’ picturesque paintings of bureaucratic dystopia
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201219th Century French vegetable catalogue paintings reproduced in all their painstaking glory
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2019Fragility, despair and boredom are the pillars to Madeleine Pfull’s paintings of elderly women
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2014Art: It's sunny side up thanks to LA-based Ben Sanders' colourful paintings
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2019Sasha Gordon's intimate paintings explore her biracial identity
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2021Moving between illustration, painting, and ceramics with multi-talented artist Claire Christerson
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2019Intimate, safe and romantic: Ekaterina Popova paints the interiors of her friend’s bedrooms
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2019Hiejin Yoo's paintings are reflections on the details of daily life
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2024Benjamin Artola’s paintings present a world without humans
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2023Transforming the mundane into the extraordinary with artist Mark Hernandez
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2021Jen Uman is a refreshing reminder that talent can be cultivated without art school
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2013Creepy but excellent Condo-esque paintings from artist Nathan James will weird out your Wednesday
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2022“I have an aversion to the traditional idea of beauty”: Amanda Ba on her purposefully unsettling paintings
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2021Catherine Repko’s paintings are a sweet, cropped and gentle reminder of a time before lockdown
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2015Jim Tsinganos’ painterly illustrations tackle the world’s big issues
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2022Step into the psychedelic paintings of Rachel Hayden and you might not want to leave
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2021Artist and designer Geoffroy Pithon shows us how mixing disciplines works in his favour
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2009Stare Into The Sun
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2013Art: Eun Ji Ryu conjures up a weird painted wonderland
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2012Stunning, intimate paintings from the 1960s by Domenico Gnoli
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2019Rebecca Harper's paintings are a “reflection of the time we are living in”
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2017Jacob Yarwood’s paintings produce “moments rather than goals or agendas”
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2019John Wonnacott paints the changing face and wide-open skies of the Essex coast
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2016Artist Matthew F Fisher paints seascapes and wildlife with vivid precision
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2012Fiona Ackerman's paintings offer an extraordinary view into her studio
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2017Llewellyn Mejia's paintings created in between commercial projects
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2021“I’m not trying to make a statement with my work”: Paul Verdell on how he’s “just here to paint”
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2019Spanish artist Ignasi Monreal firmly places classical painting in the now
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2017Tristan Pigott paints “real contemporaries” in upcoming solo exhibition, Juicy Bits
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2024Iga Bielawska paints a world that incorporates womanhood, queerness and the zodiac
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2013Art: Luis Vassallo, transforming the mundane into the peculiar with paint
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1850Irises
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1679Page from the Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting
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2021Artist Benji Human uses illustration and painting to inspire their filmmaking
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2018Léa Augereau's figurative paintings feature a diverse range of strong and confident women
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1991Paula Scher
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Putti with a Medallion
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King Siddhartha Tells Queen Trisala the Meaning of the Fourteen Dreams (left) and The Interpretation of Dreams (right): Folio from a Kalpasutra Manuscript
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1700Twee zwartmaskerduifjes
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Madonna and Child Enthroned with Angels
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1647The Painter’s Studio
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2015A dreamy love letter to young adulthood by painter Charlie Roberts
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1644Portrait of Jacoba Bontemantel (1643-?)
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2020Minji Seo’s surreal artworks are founded on tenderness for other human beings
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1500The Christ Child Pressing the Wine of the Eucharist
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1808A Lion from the Menagerie of King Louis Napoleon, 1808
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2013Art: Max Kauffman's chaotic, compelling folkloric paintings fill us with wonder
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2017Matteo Berton’s sprawling landscapes are rich with texture and detail
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2015Beautiful editorial illustrations by painter Jean-Philippe Delhomme
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2020Blissful and joyous on the outside, Yulia Iosilzon’s paintings are in fact loaded with deeper contexts
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2014Cute and scary cartoons and paintings by Colombian artist Jim Pluk
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2020What does it mean to be an Asian American today? Painter Susan Chen explores the multi-dimensional identity
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2016Babak Ganjei paints 90s sitcom sitting rooms. But which one's which?
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2019Artist Katja Seib's surreal ongoing project is to paint the never-ending story in her head
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2014Exhibition: Tauba Auerbach touches down at the ICA with some extraordinary sculptures
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2017Cinematic portraits by Irish painter Peter Doyle
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2013Art: Laura Owens creates giant, abstract works like 1980s album art
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2023Mohammed Z. Rahman dreams up a magical future with his “carnivalesque and grave" paintings
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2017Artist Crys Yin adds comical elements to her simply-executed paintings
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2019Louise Bonnet paints exaggerated bodies as symbols of melancholy and loneliness
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2025Jordan Sullivan searches for beauty in the circus of America
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2025Kazuki Koga’s colourful paintings are full of soft scenes that you’ll long to be part of
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1635Dancing Couple
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2021Artist Laura Collins on the “relatable” moments of celebrity culture which inspire her paintings
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2019Grant James-Thomas shoots twins with a painterly aesthetic for Vogue Italia
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2020Kris Knight's intimate portraiture tells stories of queerness, vulnerability and tenderness
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2013Art: Caroline Larsen makes paintings look like tapestries in astonishing series Burning Up
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2022Inside “the feminine and fluid” world of artist Yimiao Liu
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2022Lena Yokoyama on making art with scarce resources in a retreat to the Colombian mountains
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2012Introducing...The stunningly painted world of Californian artist Matthew Palladino
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2019Soft and pastel-hued, Coline Marotta’s paintings draw from our relationship with tech
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2013Get lost in the blood-red mountains of Sea Hyun Lee's paintings
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2019Eryn Lougheed’s fantastical, illustrative paintings are windows onto dreamlike worlds
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2013Introducing: Meet the grotesque painted characters of illustrator Oh Papa
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2016Zsofia Schweger’s paintings depict her Hungarian home frozen in time
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2019Alex Jackson's paintings want us to change how we think about space
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2025Hannah Knox’s paintings of collars, zips and buttoned up cardigans tell stories about the human condition
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2012Mary Ellen Johnson's paintings are a syrupy drip of hyper-reality
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2022Artist Daieny Chin unpeels the powerful symbolic value of the banana
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2018Molly Bounds paints intimate moments of quiet contemplation
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2021Elisa Breyer paints daydream-like scenes that contrasts our current and imaginary states of living
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2018Adrian Kay Wong mixes the simplistic and sentimental in his nostalgia filled paintings
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2020Metamorphic and mesmerising, Sujin Lee paints the most common subject of all: grass
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2015Illustrator Alice Tye tells us about losing the rose-tinted gaze and "getting closure"
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2018Karen Lederer's paintings reference everything from pets to politics
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2013Let painter Anthony Cudahy wow you with his dreamy masterpieces
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2020With vast influences and “80 per cent coffee” fuelling his practice, Cannon Dill’s paintings are textural delights
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2018Illustrator Nano projects life into her paintings to counteract negative emotions
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2018Shohei Morimoto’s paintings capture emotions that don’t particularly belong to anywhere
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2017Colour, space, form and what it means to paint: introducing artist Morgan Ward
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2022Inés Maestre’s hyperrealistic paintings comment on desire, relationships and human nature
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1744Gezicht op een stadje aan het water
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2023Sunset skies and luscious lawns: Artist Stacy Leigh paints herself a dream reality
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2016The lost paintings of graphic designer Keith Cunningham
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2022Johnny Izatt-Lowry adds an uncertain tone to familiar objects in his dry pigment paintings
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2022There’s more than meets the eye in the vibrant paintings of Oscar yi Hou
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2014Art: Amy Woodside has some new paintings and a sweatshirt range to boot!
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2025Cosy up inside Jodie Howard’s soft and nostalgic scenes
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2015Abstract paintings of intertwined bodies by French art director Inès Longevial
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2018Dario Maglionico’s impeccable paintings of partly-transparent, trendy young adults
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2020Rosie McGinn takes us back to the music of our teenage years with her new painted series, Cee Deez
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2014Art: Check out Daniel Zender's wonderful nightmare paintings
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2014View of east side entry (east elevation) - University of Idaho, Central Heating Plant, West side of Line Street, between University Avenue and Idaho Avenue, Moscow, Latah County, HABS ID,29-MOSC,1A-5
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2024DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN! (1916) - poster with painting by Wilhelm Kotarbiński
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2024Tim Lahan’s pixel works are made with paint, pastel and a mistrust of technology
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2022“They’re filling in the gaps within my own memories”: Arthur Timothy on using art to explore his family history
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2018Strip clubs and bordellos: Tal R’s hypnotic paintings of sex shops from around the world
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2011Glenn Brown
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2017Jules de Balincourt’s vivid paintings of public spaces play with reality
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2019Dan Perkins’ geometric paintings are “imbued with light, rendered in luminous washes”
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2021Coady Brown paints alluring figures that “have a lot of secrets”
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2019Painting friends in mid-conversation, Alex Bradley Cohen hides as much as he reveals
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2022Mythology clashes with urban culture in Laust Højgaard’s boxy, distorted paintings
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2019Painter Ania Hobson combines contemporary and traditional styles in her portraits
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2019Likened to David Hockney and Henri Rousseau, Claire Nicolet paints an idyllic version of her surroundings
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2018Painter Todd James' vivid and complex compositions of meditative interiors
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2013Painter Simon Casson takes the collage back a few centuries
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2020From child actor to painter, Adebayo Bolaji discusses his instinctive and expressive practice
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2014Sexual, chuckle-worthy paintings by Amelie von Wulffen
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2012The atmospheric landscapes of Douglas Lyle Thompson are brilliantly unnerving
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2019Madelynn Mae Green’s paintings explore themes of memory, family and domesticity
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2017Illustrator Ping Zhu on how her paintings inform her editorial work
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2021Linus Borgo’s naturalistic and diaristic paintings are autobiographical at their core
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2019Ethan Stuart paints “the magical realism” of believing in a higher power
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2012Moki makes us purr with painted illustrations on wood
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2021In her illustrations and paintings, Yashasvi Mathis leaves Earth to find a new world
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2019Painting intricate scenes of live broadcasts, James Pederson turns to sport as his muse
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2022Caroline Zurmely’s nail polish paintings summon life onto the canvas through an unlikely tool
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2000Fashion Illustration
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2014Extraordinary sculptures and paintings from artist Lee Marshall
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2013Painter Martin McGinn's still-lifes of art history books are a meta treat
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2018Ellie Ji Yang’s idyllic paintings explore the rhythms of the natural world
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2014Take a look at Paul Metrinko's beautiful series of beach paintings
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2021Emily Pettigrew’s mesmerising paintings are a “push-pull of serenity and quietness”
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2019Charlotte Keates' paintings invite us into an all-American “dreamscape”
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2017Inès Longevial’s deliciously rich geometric paintings
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1520The Adoration of the Magi (1520)
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1779Gezicht op het Haarlemmerplein
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2017Patricia Renne’ Thomas’ paintings critique black exploitation
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2017Justine Rivas' poetry inspired melodic paintings
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2010Neo Rauch at David Zwirner
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2012Friday Likes 08
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2020Leon Xu paints warm, hazy scenes representing how memory alters reality
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2019Stevie Dix's paintings have the ability to "hiss and speak of forbidden temptations"
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2021Footballs, blood and gore: Mattia Guarnera-MacCarthy paints the gruesome side of sport
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2023Conor Murgatroyd’s obsession with history fuels his colourful and allegorical paintings
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2025Sierra Montoya Barela’s paintings are a tribute to interior design, plants and birthday cakes
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2012Really unreal: The compelling compositions and strange symbolism of Eckart Hahn's paintings
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2017The wonky but lovely perspective of Editorial Mag editor Claire Milbrath’s paintings
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2023In his soulful paintings, Caleb Hahne Quintana navigates his “blurred” family history
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2017The meticulously layered and striped paintings of Guy Yanai
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2022Painter Owen Rival finds beauty in the mundane moments of life and coupledom
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2011Raqib Shaw
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2019Detailed, bold and blurry, Jonathan Chapline paints the scenes from our past
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2025Luca Bjørnsten revels in the sugariness of pop culture in these luminous paintings
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2018Rabiya Choudhry takes painful experiences and explores them through painting
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2015Beach and pool-side paintings by Stephen Abela
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2022“Cellulite, rolls and stretch marks”: Deja Patterson challenges body standards in her erotically charged paintings
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2021Just what is it...? A new exhibition questions ideas of home and belonging
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2012Praise for the humble human in these voyeuristic paintings by Serban Savu
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2012Introducing…The delightful multi-practice of pattern-maker-painter, Saskia Pomeroy
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1472The Adoration of the Magi (1472)
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2023Nicolas Coleman’s paintings of Morocco celebrate the beauty of travel while probing the ethics of tourism
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2016Illustrator José Ja Ja Ja swaps the pencils for paints in new exhibition
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1700Jan Vos (1610-67), Amsterdam poet
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2015Ella Kruglyanskaya paints bawdy portrayals of the female form
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2014Art: Cleon Peterson disturbs and delights with his giant canvases of orgiastic ultraviolence
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2017The delectably layered paintings of Australian artist, Jordan Kerwick
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2019Stefhany Lozano's latest series of paintings capture the feelings before a panic attack
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2012If it's at all possible, Andy Rementer's brand new paintings make us love him even more
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1700Portrait of Matthijs Gansneb, called Tengnagel, Poet in Amsterdam
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2022“I have no control over them!”: Tristan Pigott on painting inanimate objects with agency
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2016Andy Dixon’s paintings contemplate the self-indulgence of leisure and art
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2018Audun Alvestad creates tender paintings of the “ordinary Joe”
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2019Your Ass Sucks Buttermilk! Violet Luczak mixes graphic design and painting to take on the dairy industry
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2013Let John Tierney's paintings whisk you away to an idealised, sun-drenched USA
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2020Olivia Sterling paints nostalgia-filled pieces to deconstruct complex issues of othering
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2017Danielle Orchard’s paintings interpret the “anxiety around intimacy”
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2014Some exciting new works by David Hockney on show at NY's Pace Gallery
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2022Katie Hector uses dye and bleach to create cathartic portraits
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2013Meet Robert Josiah Bingaman and his magnificent technicolor paintings
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2016Caitlin Keogh explores gender and femininity in her graphic paintings
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2024Céline Ducrot’s paintings are filled with glowy moments of ambiguity
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2024Brad Reay’s map-like paintings are a kind of “organised chaos”
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2019Painter Nick McPhail uses Renaissance techniques to make his architectural landscapes “glow”
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2012Tate St Ives presents a great influencer and octogenarian painter, Alex Katz
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2021Joe O’Donnell swaps digital illustration for painting with intricately therapeutic results
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2021Small objects and ornaments are illuminated in the work of painter Nick Farhi
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2012Alex Russell Flint's paintings are the perfect mix of modernity and tradition
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2012Contemporary botanical painting in Rosie Sanders' exhibition Against the Light
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2024From juniper to pine snags, Molly Greene’s paintings showcase the interconnectedness of nature
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2022Enter the uncanny Californian valley with Erik Mark Sandberg’s LA-inspired paintings
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2020Excited by the everyday, Or Lapid’s practice captures fleeting moments of beautiful mundanity
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2017Nora Sturges’ clean and simple paintings using the unusual medium of eggs
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2022Sun Woo on how her nomadic childhood inspires her painting practice
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2019Drea Cofield's paintings explore her past through mythological and allegorical contexts
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2018Austin Eddy on uprooting his studio from Brooklyn to west London for a month of speedy painting
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2018Andy Dixon's paintings portray luxury, despite their ubiquitous subjects
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2016Alex Paulus’ paintings are full of misshapen characters in odd situations
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2023“The more chaotic the better”: Sarah Ingraham subverts the still life form with colour in abundance
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