Discover Painting Artists
Browse our curated selection of artists working in Painting
Barbara Walker
Birmingham, United Kingdom
Barbara Walker is a British artist known for her poignant large-scale drawings and paintings that explore race, identity, and historical representation. Her meticulous works often highlight the overlooked presence of Black figures in historical narratives, challenging perceptions and asserting visibility with powerful emotional depth.
Joy Gerrard
London, United Kingdom
Joy Gerrard is a British artist known for her striking ink drawings and paintings that capture the dynamics of crowds and protests. Her work explores themes of collective action, dissent, and power, translating news imagery into stark, powerful compositions that highlight the human element in mass movements.
Rhys Coren
London, United Kingdom
Rhys Coren is a British artist known for his vibrant, animated paintings and drawings that combine abstract forms with figuration. His work often features rhythmic patterns and a playful use of color, creating dynamic compositions that evoke music, movement, and the energy of contemporary culture.
Joe Tilson
London, United Kingdom
Joe Tilson was a British artist, a key figure in British Pop Art, known for his diverse practice across painting, printmaking, and sculpture. His work often incorporated everyday objects, popular imagery, and vibrant colors, exploring themes of communication, signs, and the material culture of the 1960s.
Ali Banisadr
Tehran, Iran
Ali Banisadr is an Iranian-American painter known for his vibrant, densely layered canvases that blur abstraction and figuration. His work often evokes chaotic, fantastical battles or cityscapes, drawing from historical Persian miniatures and personal memories of war to explore themes of conflict and sound.
Francis Ruyter
Washington, United States
Francis Ruyter is an American artist known for his vibrant, graphic paintings and installations that explore contemporary media and cultural representation. His work often features bold colors and simplified forms, translating photographic imagery into new visual languages that question authenticity and perception.
Sebastian Black
New York, United States
Sebastian Black is an American artist known for his vibrant, expressive paintings that often feature abstract forms and recurring motifs. His work explores the act of painting itself, embracing spontaneity, gesture, and the interplay of color and texture to create dynamic and emotionally resonant compositions.
Georgia Gardner Gray
New York, United States
Georgia Gardner Gray is an American painter known for her distinctive, often whimsical, figurative canvases. Her work frequently depicts surreal narratives and stylized figures, exploring themes of femininity, social dynamics, and identity with a unique blend of humor, irony, and melancholic introspection.
Soshiro Matsubara
Tokyo, Japan
Soshiro Matsubara is a Japanese artist known for his diverse practice encompassing painting, sculpture, and installation. His work often uses fragmented forms and found objects to explore themes of perception, memory, and the uncanny, creating enigmatic compositions that hover between reality and illusion.
Ernst Yohji Jaeger
Heidelberg, Germany
Ernst Yohji Jaeger is a German artist known for his vibrant, expressive paintings that often feature fragmented figures and dreamlike narratives. His work blends influences from Japanese woodblock prints and Western expressionism, creating visually rich, melancholic compositions that explore identity and emotion.