Interviews

Peter Burns is an Irish painter renowned for his richly layered, mythic oil paintings that blend elements of classical, biblical, and science fiction narratives.

Hanna ten Doornkaat’s work is an ongoing investigation of the meaning and concept of painting versus drawing. Her works on wood panels are defined by a complex process of repetitive mark making and erasure, of revealing and concealing.

Berntson Bhattacharjee Gallery was founded in 2020 and is based in London with a satellite programme in Stockholm. In 2023, we converted what was once a car park into our...

Alice Amati is a gallerist and curator based in London. She opened her eponymous gallery in June 2023 working with local and international emerging artists and the same year she co-founded Apollo Painting School, a not-for-profit alternative learning programme for painters in the UK.

Jane Bottery is a contemporary abstract artist whose work evokes a meditative sense of space and light, inspired by landscapes and the natural world. Through layered shapes, colours, and translucency, she explores materiality, mark-making, and refinement to achieve a lightness of touch. 

Zayn Qahtani (b. 1997, Bahrain) lives and works in London. Zayn is a multidisciplinary artist working across drawing, painting and sculpture. 

Los Angeles-based figurative oil painter Ally Rae Peeples centers her work around the various ways people distort reality. Drawing inspiration from the byproducts of tourism culture that surrounded her as...

Marla-Sunshine Kellard-Jones graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art in 2024 and has shown her work in numerous group shows, most recently A Pocket Full of Plenty with Papillon...

Toby Rainbird (b. 1994, Jersey, C.I.) is a British artist and curator based in London. He recently completed an MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art, where he...

Jean-Pierre Villafañe’s work operates at the intersection of painting and performance, where roles fracture, architectures dissolve, and theatricality dominates. Working primarily in oil on linen and wood panels, Villafañe's meticulous...

Maayan Sophia Weisstub is a multidisciplinary artist, living and working in the United Kingdom.

Scarlett Pochet (b.2001) lives and works between Essex and London. She graduated in May 202 with a First Class Fine Art and History Of Art degree from The Slade School...