Brian Leo

Brian Leo Time For Cake

2018

Brian Leo Cookie 2018 Acrylic on stretched canvas 10 x 10 inches Brian Leo was born in New Jersey in 1976, and is currently living in New York City. He is a graduate of Rutgers’ Ma...

Brown and Yellow 1 2022 Acrylic on canvas 24 x 28 inches Brian Leo’s prolific practice locates itself somewhere between Grunge Surrealism, Post Paint...

Brian Leo Lost Bagage 2018 Acrylic tin stretched canvas 20 x 20 inches Brian Leo was born in New Jersey in 1976, and is currently living in New York City. He is a graduate of Rutge...

Brown and Yellow 3 2022 Acrylic on canvas 24 x 26.5 inches Brian Leo’s prolific practice locates itself somewhere between Grunge Surrealism, Post Pai...

Suzy Smith's "Let Them Eat Cake" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a portrait of a female nude with a crown set against a backdrop inspired by a Wayne Thiebaud cake...

This fun portrait by Kerry Louise Bennett invites you to treat yourself to moment of guilt-free pleasure. The stunning contemporary shade of pink and geometric pattern are complement...

A joyful depiction of a towering celebration cake decorated in edible wild flowers. This painting has a great deal of texture, vibrancy and character. Kerry Louise Bennett, artist and painter, has original artworks available with Wychwood Art in our gallery and online. Working from her home studio in Sheffield, Kerry Louise Bennett (b.1972) makes colourful paintings loaded with texture and pattern. Her previous lives working in set design, upholstery and photography, and her passion for music and literature, all feed into the semi-abstract interior and still life compositions she paints. In one sense the objects painted and the relationships between them can be seen as arbitrary, necessary only to serve a sense of spatial orchestration, and the abstract sensibility of a process-led artist, however, an element of romance and storytelling always seems to emerge in her charming characterful paintings. Colour and composition, strong mark-making and the pure materiality of paint drive my creative practice, but of course everything I make reveals something of me - the introvert, the observer, the dreamer. I work over multiple layers before finding the story the painting wants to tell. In some ways I feel like the conductor of an unruly orchestra - there is a musicality to my work, and my visual vocabulary draws on the everyday to capture a kind of unconscious narrative that transforms chaos into calm, worry into joy, the mundane to the magical. Kerry says of herself: I am obsessed with colour first and foremost – it’s impact is so visceral, but mark making is also important – usually expressed through pattern and the shapes of things often scratched into the surface of the paint, with textures then built up over many layers. My visual vocabulary draws on the ordinary stuff of life - chairs, plants...

Oil & Collage on canvas Juliane Hundertmark is a German artist born in 1971 who lives and works in Berlin, Germany. She is considered one of Berlin's most original and inventive eme...