Tag: figurative painting
Maureen Daniel creates large-scale portraits that challenge conventional ideas of female beauty and representation. Working primarily in acrylic and oil, she paints women as they are, free from expectations of perfection, flattery, or stereotypical elegance.
Discover how Swedish artist Linnéa Hällfors brings human figures and botanical details together in thoughtful paintings exploring nature, identity, rest, and belonging.
Joanna Pilarczyk creates colourful figurative paintings that combine expressive portraits, bold geometric patterns, and lush greenery. Influenced by nature, street art, animation, and graphic design, she builds vibrant compositions that explore identity, intimacy, relationships, and acceptance.
Sarah Rutherford is a British painter who returned to her artistic practice after stepping away from painting to pursue a career in marketing. Working primarily in oils, she creates portraits and still lifes that look beyond surface appearances to explore character, emotion, and the stories objects carry.
Linda Edwards creates paintings rooted in the landscapes, traditions, and everyday life of Saddleworth, where she has lived for more than thirty years. Working mainly in oils, she captures quiet streets, changing light, local characters, natural landscapes, and community traditions, treating her paintings as a kind of visual diary of the place she calls home
Dominika Luszcz creates contemporary portraits of women surrounded by flower wreaths, embroidered textiles, and earthy colors inspired by Polish folklore. Her paintings explore heritage, identity, nature, renewal, and belonging while reinterpreting traditional imagery through her own contemporary style.
Leigh Witherell uses the human figure to explore the emotions people often struggle to put into words. Working primarily through figurative painting, she creates intimate images shaped by grief, love, vulnerability, loss, and resilience. Her practice is deeply intuitive, beginning with emotion rather than anatomy or gesture, and her figures have evolved alongside her own experience of grief after the unexpected loss of her daughter in 2021. Witherell’s work also examines male vulnerability, unspoken feelings, and the stories carried quietly by those around us. Through projects such as The Invisibility Project,…
Discover the creative journey of Joanna Pilarczyk, from her childhood in Poland and television-inspired colour palette to her vibrant figurative paintings in London.
Joan Cox has spent more than twenty-five years exploring the figure, creating intimate oil paintings that centre queer women and the ordinary moments of their lives. Her couples appear in homes, parks, bedrooms, and everyday settings, surrounded by the objects, animals, books, clothing, and details that reveal who they are. Drawing from art history while reimagining familiar compositions through contemporary queer perspectives, Joan creates paintings that give women who love women space to exist on their own terms. Her work challenges the tradition of depicting women primarily through the male gaze,…
Discover the contemporary paintings of Slovenian artist Tea Rudolf, whose cinematic figurative works celebrate modern womanhood through quiet, everyday moments. From intimate interiors to joyful gatherings, her original paintings transform ordinary experiences into timeless visual stories that invite viewers to slow down and savor life's simple beauty.