Discover Painting Artists
Browse our curated selection of artists working in Painting
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
London, United Kingdom
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye is a British artist known for her evocative oil paintings of fictional Black figures. Her distinctive portraits, often rendered in muted tones, explore themes of identity, representation, and the act of looking, inviting viewers to project their own narratives onto her subjects.
Jennifer Packer
Philadelphia, United States
Jennifer Packer is an American painter known for her expressive, often somber, portraits and interior scenes. Her powerful canvases, characterized by gestural brushwork and muted palettes, explore themes of intimacy, grief, and racial identity with a profound emotional depth and raw beauty.
Dee Ferris
Hull, United Kingdom
Dee Ferris is a British painter known for her ethereal, atmospheric landscapes that hover between abstraction and figuration. Her work often features diffused light and subtle shifts in color, creating dreamlike scenes that evoke a sense of quietude, memory, and subjective experience.
Imran Qureshi
Hyderabad, Pakistan
Imran Qureshi is a Pakistani artist renowned for his intricate miniature paintings that blend traditional Mughal techniques with contemporary themes. His work often incorporates explosive, blood-red imagery over delicate floral patterns, commenting on violence, resilience, and the fragile beauty of life.
Glenn Sorensen
Sydney, Australia
Glenn Sorensen is an Australian painter known for his intimate, often melancholic, canvases featuring mundane subjects. His distinctive style employs a muted palette and delicate brushwork, transforming everyday objects and scenes into poignant reflections on presence, absence, and the subtle beauty of ordinary life.
Richard Hawkins
Los Angeles, United States
Richard Hawkins is an American painter known for his vibrant, abstract canvases that merge geometric forms with expressive gestures. His work often incorporates a grid-like structure, exploring color, pattern, and illusion with a playful complexity that evokes both digital aesthetics and textile design.
Alex Da Corte
Camden, United States
Alex Da Corte is an American artist renowned for his vibrant, meticulously constructed installations and videos that merge pop art aesthetics with surrealism and consumer culture critique. His work, often featuring recognizable characters and products, creates dreamlike, hyper-saturated worlds exploring identity and alienation.
Dana Schutz
New York, United States
Dana Schutz is an American painter celebrated for her expressive, often grotesque, figurative canvases. Her work depicts imagined scenarios and figures with vibrant colors and bold brushwork, exploring themes of human vulnerability, societal anxieties, and the absurd with a visceral energy.
Nick Goss
London, United Kingdom
Nick Goss is a British painter known for his atmospheric, often dreamlike canvases that blend figurative and abstract elements. His work frequently draws from personal memory, literature, and urban landscapes, creating evocative scenes that hover between reality and imagination, imbued with a sense of melancholic narrative.
Cecily Brown
London, United Kingdom
Cecily Brown is a British painter celebrated for her dynamic, gestural canvases that teeter between abstraction and figuration. Her work is characterized by explosive brushwork and a vibrant palette, exploring themes of eroticism, mythology, and art historical references with raw energy and sensual complexity.