Vittoria Beltrame's Artists to Watch
Curator, writer and art advisor Vittoria Beltrame guides us through her favourite contemporary artists to keep an eye on...
March 26, 2024
Vittoria Beltrame is a curator, writer and advisor. Her practice in curating focuses on emerging artists whose creative talent deserves to be brought to light and be seen worldwide. She is highly interested in transhistorical themes, hence her interest and appreciation for a multitude of art movements and artists that she believes reflect timeless forms of talent. After graduating from Christie’s with an MSc in Art, Law and Business she has curated and worked on a number of projects in Central London.
Melania Toma
Toma’s works encapsulate different worlds within one through the exploration of raw earth materials such as wool, sand, and pigment powders mixed to create paint. The materiality used in Melania’s works speaks of further connections of universal language that unite all existence, her two-dimensional canvases transformed into sculptural works with the application of such materials, highlighting the connection between nature and her works. For this introspective process of the just-mentioned connection, her residency at Fundación Casa Wabi in Mexico was crucial.
Kay Gasei
Kay Gasei’s works have a narrative that makes attentive use of symbolism and mythology, giving the audience a sense of intimate mysteriousness due to the intricate details and embedded stories to discover. I was first introduced to Kay's work through an exhibition I curated in October 2021 in Soho, together with artists Naila Hazell and Abi Joy Samuel, who are also included in this list.
Eva Dixon
She investigates materials and subverts their purpose to fit a need within the work. The geometric forms in her work are pulled from construction, mirroring the appropriated materials she uses. Dixon blurs the lines between painting, sculpture and craft, investigating how the relationship between opacity and transparency can expose the structure and surface as one. Dixon’s work offers a site to question the making process and the binaries between labours. I have worked with her for my curated show Intuition Goes Before You in August 2023 in Soho, and she is also publishing a book about her practice which she kindly asked me to participate in - very exciting.
Lydia Hamblet
Lydia’s work differs greatly in size, from diptychs to smaller canvases and works with a distinct level of detail and experimentation - yet her gesture on the canvas is ever-present and recognisable. Her paintings delve into topics of weather, doing so by evoking thought-provoking responses to her abstract landscape works, where the audience interprets what they see, from trees to faces to symphonies of colour. She was also included in my curated selection of last month's Art on a Postcard auction.
Cecilia Fiona
Since first noticing Cecilia Fiona’s works last year, her ambiguous, enchanting dream-like landscapes and characters have strongly intrigued me, reminding me of artists such as Chagall. It was also exciting to meet her recently and have her participate in my curated selection for last month’s International Women’s Day auction through Art on a Postcard.
Isabella Amram
Isabella’s art practice is a ritual; everything from preparing the materials, to the use of colour and scale, to a piece being reworked or left alone, to the use of her body, is part of this ritual. She uses ritual as a way of inducing and processing states of transformation and uncertainty, through material and bodily gestures of disintegration, embodiment, and enduring stillness.
Naila Hazell
Naila grew up in Azerbaijan but currently lives and works in London. She was taught by renowned Soviet social realist painter Boyukagha Mirzezade while studying fine arts and getting her MA at the Azerbaijani Fine Arts Academy. Hazell has had numerous solo and group shows in Baku and now, with her studio based in West London, she is continuing her work and exhibiting in the UK. A figurative artist working mainly in oil and acrylic, she's also expanding her practices with different media for some of her future conceptual art projects. I had the pleasure of working with her for an exhibition I curated in October 2021.
Abi Joy Samuel
Abi is a multi-award-winning fine artist based in London. Working predominantly in charcoal on paper, Abi embarks on a spiritual journey to grasp the ephemeral nature of life. She achieves this by drawing from personal film footage without interruption, occasionally rewinding the video. I initially worked with her in the same show as Kay Gasei and Nailza Hazell, and I soon after curated a solo show of her works in Notting Hill in March 2023.
Harriet Gillet
Responding to an increasingly digitalised world where images and time periods merge and appear in one seemingly eternal present, Harriet Gillett hopes to slow down these increasingly fast-paced encounters into images of reverie. Taking reference from the emotionally charged vibrancy of post-Impressionism and the devotional nature of Western religious formats, her combination of traditional subjects with contemporary materials enables her to tread a line between multiple perspectives and time periods.
Manon Steyaert
Manon is a French-British artist based in London. Her practice is situated between the two worlds of painting and sculpture, able to create both wall-based works and free-standing abstract sculptures. With a strong background in fashion as well as art, she pays homage to both traditional and non-traditional mediums throughout her practice, with a focus on the material of silicone and its playfulness.
Kim Booker
Typically painted on larger canvases and charged with bright colours and feminine figures that appear in particular poses, her works are real show-stoppers. She explained to me once when visiting her studio that her works are created intuitively and the painting process is gestural. Especially due to the size of the canvas, Kim would have to move around it, stretching herself often to reach all angles of the surface. This makes her paintings almost performative in a way, in any case especially physical and expressive when thinking about this painting process. Despite this, her works remain rather delicate, perhaps due to the feminine subject matter. I first encountered Kim’s works in a group show in central London at the end of 2022.
Mia Wilkinson
Mia Wilkinson is a London-based artist, whose oil paintings are visceral explorations of certain sexualised female forms. The sensual indulgence with which she approaches the paint is reflective of her subject; female bodybuilders and squashers wrestle on the canvas in an orgy of drips and loaded excess paint. The humorous and lighthearted intention with which she approaches her work is not lost, as complex issues of sex and gender are confronted by her brush.
Rebecca Hardaker
Rebecca Hardaker is a visual artist painting directly with her hands, making her work a tactile experience of expression. She works from reality as she creates abstract forms and shapes, presenting to the audience abstract landscape paintings with imaginative details, while sometimes incorporating excerpts from inspiring texts. She featured in the August 2023 Soho show I curated Intuition Goes Before You.
Gal Schindler
Schindler graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art and the Royal College of Art. Her works are rather ethereal and calming, using soft palettes to include her characters in a quiet, empty environment, which adds to this feeling of calmness and playfulness within the empty space.
Ingrid Berthone-Moine
Her artistic practice, spanning sculpture, drawing and video, explores the physical and cultural dimensions of the human body. Drawing inspiration from diverse sources such as language, psychoanalysis, and feminism, Berthon-Moine weaves personal narratives into her work, challenging conventional understandings of human experiences such as sexuality. In the midst of the contemporary discourse on gender, Berthon-Moine critically examines the structure of the French language, her mother tongue, highlighting its inherent misogynistic bias.
Gill Button
London-based painter Gill Button is known for her captivating translation of found imagery, creating gestural, intimate portraits that are deeply personal and intuitive. Capturing moments of wonder, melancholy, strength or vulnerability, Button’s practice makes us question how we connect to each other, but ultimately to ourselves. Her larger canvases, often cinematic in nature, depict moments of contemplation; evocative of distant dreams, fears or memories.
Current projects: I am currently writing a piece for Eva Dixon's soon-to-be-published book Professional Girl Guide and am working with the platform Daa Art on their upcoming exhibitions and long-term plans of working with a mix of emerging artists bridging a conversation with European and Middle-Eastern art. Some other projects are also in the making but will need to wait a bit before announcing, some outside the UK as well... so watch this space!
Vittoria Beltrame is a curator, writer and advisor. Her practice in curating focuses on emerging artists whose creative talent deserves to be brought to light and be seen worldwide. She is highly interested in transhistorical themes, hence her interest and appreciation for a multitude of art movements and artists that she believes reflect timeless forms of talent. After graduating from Christie’s with an MSc in Art, Law and Business she has curated and worked on a number of projects in Central London.
Melania Toma
Toma’s works encapsulate different worlds within one through the exploration of raw earth materials such as wool, sand, and pigment powders mixed to create paint. The materiality used in Melania’s works speaks of further connections of universal language that unite all existence, her two-dimensional canvases transformed into sculptural works with the application of such materials, highlighting the connection between nature and her works. For this introspective process of the just-mentioned connection, her residency at Fundación Casa Wabi in Mexico was crucial.
Kay Gasei
Kay Gasei’s works have a narrative that makes attentive use of symbolism and mythology, giving the audience a sense of intimate mysteriousness due to the intricate details and embedded stories to discover. I was first introduced to Kay's work through an exhibition I curated in October 2021 in Soho, together with artists Naila Hazell and Abi Joy Samuel, who are also included in this list.
Eva Dixon
She investigates materials and subverts their purpose to fit a need within the work. The geometric forms in her work are pulled from construction, mirroring the appropriated materials she uses. Dixon blurs the lines between painting, sculpture and craft, investigating how the relationship between opacity and transparency can expose the structure and surface as one. Dixon’s work offers a site to question the making process and the binaries between labours. I have worked with her for my curated show Intuition Goes Before You in August 2023 in Soho, and she is also publishing a book about her practice which she kindly asked me to participate in - very exciting.
Lydia Hamblet
Lydia’s work differs greatly in size, from diptychs to smaller canvases and works with a distinct level of detail and experimentation - yet her gesture on the canvas is ever-present and recognisable. Her paintings delve into topics of weather, doing so by evoking thought-provoking responses to her abstract landscape works, where the audience interprets what they see, from trees to faces to symphonies of colour. She was also included in my curated selection of last month's Art on a Postcard auction.
Cecilia Fiona
Since first noticing Cecilia Fiona’s works last year, her ambiguous, enchanting dream-like landscapes and characters have strongly intrigued me, reminding me of artists such as Chagall. It was also exciting to meet her recently and have her participate in my curated selection for last month’s International Women’s Day auction through Art on a Postcard.
Isabella Amram
Isabella’s art practice is a ritual; everything from preparing the materials, to the use of colour and scale, to a piece being reworked or left alone, to the use of her body, is part of this ritual. She uses ritual as a way of inducing and processing states of transformation and uncertainty, through material and bodily gestures of disintegration, embodiment, and enduring stillness.
Naila Hazell
Naila grew up in Azerbaijan but currently lives and works in London. She was taught by renowned Soviet social realist painter Boyukagha Mirzezade while studying fine arts and getting her MA at the Azerbaijani Fine Arts Academy. Hazell has had numerous solo and group shows in Baku and now, with her studio based in West London, she is continuing her work and exhibiting in the UK. A figurative artist working mainly in oil and acrylic, she's also expanding her practices with different media for some of her future conceptual art projects. I had the pleasure of working with her for an exhibition I curated in October 2021.
Abi Joy Samuel
Abi is a multi-award-winning fine artist based in London. Working predominantly in charcoal on paper, Abi embarks on a spiritual journey to grasp the ephemeral nature of life. She achieves this by drawing from personal film footage without interruption, occasionally rewinding the video. I initially worked with her in the same show as Kay Gasei and Nailza Hazell, and I soon after curated a solo show of her works in Notting Hill in March 2023.
Harriet Gillet
Responding to an increasingly digitalised world where images and time periods merge and appear in one seemingly eternal present, Harriet Gillett hopes to slow down these increasingly fast-paced encounters into images of reverie. Taking reference from the emotionally charged vibrancy of post-Impressionism and the devotional nature of Western religious formats, her combination of traditional subjects with contemporary materials enables her to tread a line between multiple perspectives and time periods.
Manon Steyaert
Manon is a French-British artist based in London. Her practice is situated between the two worlds of painting and sculpture, able to create both wall-based works and free-standing abstract sculptures. With a strong background in fashion as well as art, she pays homage to both traditional and non-traditional mediums throughout her practice, with a focus on the material of silicone and its playfulness.
Kim Booker
Typically painted on larger canvases and charged with bright colours and feminine figures that appear in particular poses, her works are real show-stoppers. She explained to me once when visiting her studio that her works are created intuitively and the painting process is gestural. Especially due to the size of the canvas, Kim would have to move around it, stretching herself often to reach all angles of the surface. This makes her paintings almost performative in a way, in any case especially physical and expressive when thinking about this painting process. Despite this, her works remain rather delicate, perhaps due to the feminine subject matter. I first encountered Kim’s works in a group show in central London at the end of 2022.
Mia Wilkinson
Mia Wilkinson is a London-based artist, whose oil paintings are visceral explorations of certain sexualised female forms. The sensual indulgence with which she approaches the paint is reflective of her subject; female bodybuilders and squashers wrestle on the canvas in an orgy of drips and loaded excess paint. The humorous and lighthearted intention with which she approaches her work is not lost, as complex issues of sex and gender are confronted by her brush.
Rebecca Hardaker
Rebecca Hardaker is a visual artist painting directly with her hands, making her work a tactile experience of expression. She works from reality as she creates abstract forms and shapes, presenting to the audience abstract landscape paintings with imaginative details, while sometimes incorporating excerpts from inspiring texts. She featured in the August 2023 Soho show I curated Intuition Goes Before You.
Gal Schindler
Schindler graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art and the Royal College of Art. Her works are rather ethereal and calming, using soft palettes to include her characters in a quiet, empty environment, which adds to this feeling of calmness and playfulness within the empty space.
Ingrid Berthone-Moine
Her artistic practice, spanning sculpture, drawing and video, explores the physical and cultural dimensions of the human body. Drawing inspiration from diverse sources such as language, psychoanalysis, and feminism, Berthon-Moine weaves personal narratives into her work, challenging conventional understandings of human experiences such as sexuality. In the midst of the contemporary discourse on gender, Berthon-Moine critically examines the structure of the French language, her mother tongue, highlighting its inherent misogynistic bias.
Gill Button
London-based painter Gill Button is known for her captivating translation of found imagery, creating gestural, intimate portraits that are deeply personal and intuitive. Capturing moments of wonder, melancholy, strength or vulnerability, Button’s practice makes us question how we connect to each other, but ultimately to ourselves. Her larger canvases, often cinematic in nature, depict moments of contemplation; evocative of distant dreams, fears or memories.
Current projects: I am currently writing a piece for Eva Dixon's soon-to-be-published book Professional Girl Guide and am working with the platform Daa Art on their upcoming exhibitions and long-term plans of working with a mix of emerging artists bridging a conversation with European and Middle-Eastern art. Some other projects are also in the making but will need to wait a bit before announcing, some outside the UK as well... so watch this space!
Vittoria Beltrame is a curator, writer and advisor. Her practice in curating focuses on emerging artists whose creative talent deserves to be brought to light and be seen worldwide. She is highly interested in transhistorical themes, hence her interest and appreciation for a multitude of art movements and artists that she believes reflect timeless forms of talent. After graduating from Christie’s with an MSc in Art, Law and Business she has curated and worked on a number of projects in Central London.
Melania Toma
Toma’s works encapsulate different worlds within one through the exploration of raw earth materials such as wool, sand, and pigment powders mixed to create paint. The materiality used in Melania’s works speaks of further connections of universal language that unite all existence, her two-dimensional canvases transformed into sculptural works with the application of such materials, highlighting the connection between nature and her works. For this introspective process of the just-mentioned connection, her residency at Fundación Casa Wabi in Mexico was crucial.
Kay Gasei
Kay Gasei’s works have a narrative that makes attentive use of symbolism and mythology, giving the audience a sense of intimate mysteriousness due to the intricate details and embedded stories to discover. I was first introduced to Kay's work through an exhibition I curated in October 2021 in Soho, together with artists Naila Hazell and Abi Joy Samuel, who are also included in this list.
Eva Dixon
She investigates materials and subverts their purpose to fit a need within the work. The geometric forms in her work are pulled from construction, mirroring the appropriated materials she uses. Dixon blurs the lines between painting, sculpture and craft, investigating how the relationship between opacity and transparency can expose the structure and surface as one. Dixon’s work offers a site to question the making process and the binaries between labours. I have worked with her for my curated show Intuition Goes Before You in August 2023 in Soho, and she is also publishing a book about her practice which she kindly asked me to participate in - very exciting.
Lydia Hamblet
Lydia’s work differs greatly in size, from diptychs to smaller canvases and works with a distinct level of detail and experimentation - yet her gesture on the canvas is ever-present and recognisable. Her paintings delve into topics of weather, doing so by evoking thought-provoking responses to her abstract landscape works, where the audience interprets what they see, from trees to faces to symphonies of colour. She was also included in my curated selection of last month's Art on a Postcard auction.
Cecilia Fiona
Since first noticing Cecilia Fiona’s works last year, her ambiguous, enchanting dream-like landscapes and characters have strongly intrigued me, reminding me of artists such as Chagall. It was also exciting to meet her recently and have her participate in my curated selection for last month’s International Women’s Day auction through Art on a Postcard.
Isabella Amram
Isabella’s art practice is a ritual; everything from preparing the materials, to the use of colour and scale, to a piece being reworked or left alone, to the use of her body, is part of this ritual. She uses ritual as a way of inducing and processing states of transformation and uncertainty, through material and bodily gestures of disintegration, embodiment, and enduring stillness.
Naila Hazell
Naila grew up in Azerbaijan but currently lives and works in London. She was taught by renowned Soviet social realist painter Boyukagha Mirzezade while studying fine arts and getting her MA at the Azerbaijani Fine Arts Academy. Hazell has had numerous solo and group shows in Baku and now, with her studio based in West London, she is continuing her work and exhibiting in the UK. A figurative artist working mainly in oil and acrylic, she's also expanding her practices with different media for some of her future conceptual art projects. I had the pleasure of working with her for an exhibition I curated in October 2021.
Abi Joy Samuel
Abi is a multi-award-winning fine artist based in London. Working predominantly in charcoal on paper, Abi embarks on a spiritual journey to grasp the ephemeral nature of life. She achieves this by drawing from personal film footage without interruption, occasionally rewinding the video. I initially worked with her in the same show as Kay Gasei and Nailza Hazell, and I soon after curated a solo show of her works in Notting Hill in March 2023.
Harriet Gillet
Responding to an increasingly digitalised world where images and time periods merge and appear in one seemingly eternal present, Harriet Gillett hopes to slow down these increasingly fast-paced encounters into images of reverie. Taking reference from the emotionally charged vibrancy of post-Impressionism and the devotional nature of Western religious formats, her combination of traditional subjects with contemporary materials enables her to tread a line between multiple perspectives and time periods.
Manon Steyaert
Manon is a French-British artist based in London. Her practice is situated between the two worlds of painting and sculpture, able to create both wall-based works and free-standing abstract sculptures. With a strong background in fashion as well as art, she pays homage to both traditional and non-traditional mediums throughout her practice, with a focus on the material of silicone and its playfulness.
Kim Booker
Typically painted on larger canvases and charged with bright colours and feminine figures that appear in particular poses, her works are real show-stoppers. She explained to me once when visiting her studio that her works are created intuitively and the painting process is gestural. Especially due to the size of the canvas, Kim would have to move around it, stretching herself often to reach all angles of the surface. This makes her paintings almost performative in a way, in any case especially physical and expressive when thinking about this painting process. Despite this, her works remain rather delicate, perhaps due to the feminine subject matter. I first encountered Kim’s works in a group show in central London at the end of 2022.
Mia Wilkinson
Mia Wilkinson is a London-based artist, whose oil paintings are visceral explorations of certain sexualised female forms. The sensual indulgence with which she approaches the paint is reflective of her subject; female bodybuilders and squashers wrestle on the canvas in an orgy of drips and loaded excess paint. The humorous and lighthearted intention with which she approaches her work is not lost, as complex issues of sex and gender are confronted by her brush.
Rebecca Hardaker
Rebecca Hardaker is a visual artist painting directly with her hands, making her work a tactile experience of expression. She works from reality as she creates abstract forms and shapes, presenting to the audience abstract landscape paintings with imaginative details, while sometimes incorporating excerpts from inspiring texts. She featured in the August 2023 Soho show I curated Intuition Goes Before You.
Gal Schindler
Schindler graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art and the Royal College of Art. Her works are rather ethereal and calming, using soft palettes to include her characters in a quiet, empty environment, which adds to this feeling of calmness and playfulness within the empty space.
Ingrid Berthone-Moine
Her artistic practice, spanning sculpture, drawing and video, explores the physical and cultural dimensions of the human body. Drawing inspiration from diverse sources such as language, psychoanalysis, and feminism, Berthon-Moine weaves personal narratives into her work, challenging conventional understandings of human experiences such as sexuality. In the midst of the contemporary discourse on gender, Berthon-Moine critically examines the structure of the French language, her mother tongue, highlighting its inherent misogynistic bias.
Gill Button
London-based painter Gill Button is known for her captivating translation of found imagery, creating gestural, intimate portraits that are deeply personal and intuitive. Capturing moments of wonder, melancholy, strength or vulnerability, Button’s practice makes us question how we connect to each other, but ultimately to ourselves. Her larger canvases, often cinematic in nature, depict moments of contemplation; evocative of distant dreams, fears or memories.
Current projects: I am currently writing a piece for Eva Dixon's soon-to-be-published book Professional Girl Guide and am working with the platform Daa Art on their upcoming exhibitions and long-term plans of working with a mix of emerging artists bridging a conversation with European and Middle-Eastern art. Some other projects are also in the making but will need to wait a bit before announcing, some outside the UK as well... so watch this space!
Vittoria Beltrame is a curator, writer and advisor. Her practice in curating focuses on emerging artists whose creative talent deserves to be brought to light and be seen worldwide. She is highly interested in transhistorical themes, hence her interest and appreciation for a multitude of art movements and artists that she believes reflect timeless forms of talent. After graduating from Christie’s with an MSc in Art, Law and Business she has curated and worked on a number of projects in Central London.
Melania Toma
Toma’s works encapsulate different worlds within one through the exploration of raw earth materials such as wool, sand, and pigment powders mixed to create paint. The materiality used in Melania’s works speaks of further connections of universal language that unite all existence, her two-dimensional canvases transformed into sculptural works with the application of such materials, highlighting the connection between nature and her works. For this introspective process of the just-mentioned connection, her residency at Fundación Casa Wabi in Mexico was crucial.
Kay Gasei
Kay Gasei’s works have a narrative that makes attentive use of symbolism and mythology, giving the audience a sense of intimate mysteriousness due to the intricate details and embedded stories to discover. I was first introduced to Kay's work through an exhibition I curated in October 2021 in Soho, together with artists Naila Hazell and Abi Joy Samuel, who are also included in this list.
Eva Dixon
She investigates materials and subverts their purpose to fit a need within the work. The geometric forms in her work are pulled from construction, mirroring the appropriated materials she uses. Dixon blurs the lines between painting, sculpture and craft, investigating how the relationship between opacity and transparency can expose the structure and surface as one. Dixon’s work offers a site to question the making process and the binaries between labours. I have worked with her for my curated show Intuition Goes Before You in August 2023 in Soho, and she is also publishing a book about her practice which she kindly asked me to participate in - very exciting.
Lydia Hamblet
Lydia’s work differs greatly in size, from diptychs to smaller canvases and works with a distinct level of detail and experimentation - yet her gesture on the canvas is ever-present and recognisable. Her paintings delve into topics of weather, doing so by evoking thought-provoking responses to her abstract landscape works, where the audience interprets what they see, from trees to faces to symphonies of colour. She was also included in my curated selection of last month's Art on a Postcard auction.
Cecilia Fiona
Since first noticing Cecilia Fiona’s works last year, her ambiguous, enchanting dream-like landscapes and characters have strongly intrigued me, reminding me of artists such as Chagall. It was also exciting to meet her recently and have her participate in my curated selection for last month’s International Women’s Day auction through Art on a Postcard.
Isabella Amram
Isabella’s art practice is a ritual; everything from preparing the materials, to the use of colour and scale, to a piece being reworked or left alone, to the use of her body, is part of this ritual. She uses ritual as a way of inducing and processing states of transformation and uncertainty, through material and bodily gestures of disintegration, embodiment, and enduring stillness.
Naila Hazell
Naila grew up in Azerbaijan but currently lives and works in London. She was taught by renowned Soviet social realist painter Boyukagha Mirzezade while studying fine arts and getting her MA at the Azerbaijani Fine Arts Academy. Hazell has had numerous solo and group shows in Baku and now, with her studio based in West London, she is continuing her work and exhibiting in the UK. A figurative artist working mainly in oil and acrylic, she's also expanding her practices with different media for some of her future conceptual art projects. I had the pleasure of working with her for an exhibition I curated in October 2021.
Abi Joy Samuel
Abi is a multi-award-winning fine artist based in London. Working predominantly in charcoal on paper, Abi embarks on a spiritual journey to grasp the ephemeral nature of life. She achieves this by drawing from personal film footage without interruption, occasionally rewinding the video. I initially worked with her in the same show as Kay Gasei and Nailza Hazell, and I soon after curated a solo show of her works in Notting Hill in March 2023.
Harriet Gillet
Responding to an increasingly digitalised world where images and time periods merge and appear in one seemingly eternal present, Harriet Gillett hopes to slow down these increasingly fast-paced encounters into images of reverie. Taking reference from the emotionally charged vibrancy of post-Impressionism and the devotional nature of Western religious formats, her combination of traditional subjects with contemporary materials enables her to tread a line between multiple perspectives and time periods.
Manon Steyaert
Manon is a French-British artist based in London. Her practice is situated between the two worlds of painting and sculpture, able to create both wall-based works and free-standing abstract sculptures. With a strong background in fashion as well as art, she pays homage to both traditional and non-traditional mediums throughout her practice, with a focus on the material of silicone and its playfulness.
Kim Booker
Typically painted on larger canvases and charged with bright colours and feminine figures that appear in particular poses, her works are real show-stoppers. She explained to me once when visiting her studio that her works are created intuitively and the painting process is gestural. Especially due to the size of the canvas, Kim would have to move around it, stretching herself often to reach all angles of the surface. This makes her paintings almost performative in a way, in any case especially physical and expressive when thinking about this painting process. Despite this, her works remain rather delicate, perhaps due to the feminine subject matter. I first encountered Kim’s works in a group show in central London at the end of 2022.
Mia Wilkinson
Mia Wilkinson is a London-based artist, whose oil paintings are visceral explorations of certain sexualised female forms. The sensual indulgence with which she approaches the paint is reflective of her subject; female bodybuilders and squashers wrestle on the canvas in an orgy of drips and loaded excess paint. The humorous and lighthearted intention with which she approaches her work is not lost, as complex issues of sex and gender are confronted by her brush.
Rebecca Hardaker
Rebecca Hardaker is a visual artist painting directly with her hands, making her work a tactile experience of expression. She works from reality as she creates abstract forms and shapes, presenting to the audience abstract landscape paintings with imaginative details, while sometimes incorporating excerpts from inspiring texts. She featured in the August 2023 Soho show I curated Intuition Goes Before You.
Gal Schindler
Schindler graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art and the Royal College of Art. Her works are rather ethereal and calming, using soft palettes to include her characters in a quiet, empty environment, which adds to this feeling of calmness and playfulness within the empty space.
Ingrid Berthone-Moine
Her artistic practice, spanning sculpture, drawing and video, explores the physical and cultural dimensions of the human body. Drawing inspiration from diverse sources such as language, psychoanalysis, and feminism, Berthon-Moine weaves personal narratives into her work, challenging conventional understandings of human experiences such as sexuality. In the midst of the contemporary discourse on gender, Berthon-Moine critically examines the structure of the French language, her mother tongue, highlighting its inherent misogynistic bias.
Gill Button
London-based painter Gill Button is known for her captivating translation of found imagery, creating gestural, intimate portraits that are deeply personal and intuitive. Capturing moments of wonder, melancholy, strength or vulnerability, Button’s practice makes us question how we connect to each other, but ultimately to ourselves. Her larger canvases, often cinematic in nature, depict moments of contemplation; evocative of distant dreams, fears or memories.
Current projects: I am currently writing a piece for Eva Dixon's soon-to-be-published book Professional Girl Guide and am working with the platform Daa Art on their upcoming exhibitions and long-term plans of working with a mix of emerging artists bridging a conversation with European and Middle-Eastern art. Some other projects are also in the making but will need to wait a bit before announcing, some outside the UK as well... so watch this space!
Vittoria Beltrame is a curator, writer and advisor. Her practice in curating focuses on emerging artists whose creative talent deserves to be brought to light and be seen worldwide. She is highly interested in transhistorical themes, hence her interest and appreciation for a multitude of art movements and artists that she believes reflect timeless forms of talent. After graduating from Christie’s with an MSc in Art, Law and Business she has curated and worked on a number of projects in Central London.
Melania Toma
Toma’s works encapsulate different worlds within one through the exploration of raw earth materials such as wool, sand, and pigment powders mixed to create paint. The materiality used in Melania’s works speaks of further connections of universal language that unite all existence, her two-dimensional canvases transformed into sculptural works with the application of such materials, highlighting the connection between nature and her works. For this introspective process of the just-mentioned connection, her residency at Fundación Casa Wabi in Mexico was crucial.
Kay Gasei
Kay Gasei’s works have a narrative that makes attentive use of symbolism and mythology, giving the audience a sense of intimate mysteriousness due to the intricate details and embedded stories to discover. I was first introduced to Kay's work through an exhibition I curated in October 2021 in Soho, together with artists Naila Hazell and Abi Joy Samuel, who are also included in this list.
Eva Dixon
She investigates materials and subverts their purpose to fit a need within the work. The geometric forms in her work are pulled from construction, mirroring the appropriated materials she uses. Dixon blurs the lines between painting, sculpture and craft, investigating how the relationship between opacity and transparency can expose the structure and surface as one. Dixon’s work offers a site to question the making process and the binaries between labours. I have worked with her for my curated show Intuition Goes Before You in August 2023 in Soho, and she is also publishing a book about her practice which she kindly asked me to participate in - very exciting.
Lydia Hamblet
Lydia’s work differs greatly in size, from diptychs to smaller canvases and works with a distinct level of detail and experimentation - yet her gesture on the canvas is ever-present and recognisable. Her paintings delve into topics of weather, doing so by evoking thought-provoking responses to her abstract landscape works, where the audience interprets what they see, from trees to faces to symphonies of colour. She was also included in my curated selection of last month's Art on a Postcard auction.
Cecilia Fiona
Since first noticing Cecilia Fiona’s works last year, her ambiguous, enchanting dream-like landscapes and characters have strongly intrigued me, reminding me of artists such as Chagall. It was also exciting to meet her recently and have her participate in my curated selection for last month’s International Women’s Day auction through Art on a Postcard.
Isabella Amram
Isabella’s art practice is a ritual; everything from preparing the materials, to the use of colour and scale, to a piece being reworked or left alone, to the use of her body, is part of this ritual. She uses ritual as a way of inducing and processing states of transformation and uncertainty, through material and bodily gestures of disintegration, embodiment, and enduring stillness.
Naila Hazell
Naila grew up in Azerbaijan but currently lives and works in London. She was taught by renowned Soviet social realist painter Boyukagha Mirzezade while studying fine arts and getting her MA at the Azerbaijani Fine Arts Academy. Hazell has had numerous solo and group shows in Baku and now, with her studio based in West London, she is continuing her work and exhibiting in the UK. A figurative artist working mainly in oil and acrylic, she's also expanding her practices with different media for some of her future conceptual art projects. I had the pleasure of working with her for an exhibition I curated in October 2021.
Abi Joy Samuel
Abi is a multi-award-winning fine artist based in London. Working predominantly in charcoal on paper, Abi embarks on a spiritual journey to grasp the ephemeral nature of life. She achieves this by drawing from personal film footage without interruption, occasionally rewinding the video. I initially worked with her in the same show as Kay Gasei and Nailza Hazell, and I soon after curated a solo show of her works in Notting Hill in March 2023.
Harriet Gillet
Responding to an increasingly digitalised world where images and time periods merge and appear in one seemingly eternal present, Harriet Gillett hopes to slow down these increasingly fast-paced encounters into images of reverie. Taking reference from the emotionally charged vibrancy of post-Impressionism and the devotional nature of Western religious formats, her combination of traditional subjects with contemporary materials enables her to tread a line between multiple perspectives and time periods.
Manon Steyaert
Manon is a French-British artist based in London. Her practice is situated between the two worlds of painting and sculpture, able to create both wall-based works and free-standing abstract sculptures. With a strong background in fashion as well as art, she pays homage to both traditional and non-traditional mediums throughout her practice, with a focus on the material of silicone and its playfulness.
Kim Booker
Typically painted on larger canvases and charged with bright colours and feminine figures that appear in particular poses, her works are real show-stoppers. She explained to me once when visiting her studio that her works are created intuitively and the painting process is gestural. Especially due to the size of the canvas, Kim would have to move around it, stretching herself often to reach all angles of the surface. This makes her paintings almost performative in a way, in any case especially physical and expressive when thinking about this painting process. Despite this, her works remain rather delicate, perhaps due to the feminine subject matter. I first encountered Kim’s works in a group show in central London at the end of 2022.
Mia Wilkinson
Mia Wilkinson is a London-based artist, whose oil paintings are visceral explorations of certain sexualised female forms. The sensual indulgence with which she approaches the paint is reflective of her subject; female bodybuilders and squashers wrestle on the canvas in an orgy of drips and loaded excess paint. The humorous and lighthearted intention with which she approaches her work is not lost, as complex issues of sex and gender are confronted by her brush.
Rebecca Hardaker
Rebecca Hardaker is a visual artist painting directly with her hands, making her work a tactile experience of expression. She works from reality as she creates abstract forms and shapes, presenting to the audience abstract landscape paintings with imaginative details, while sometimes incorporating excerpts from inspiring texts. She featured in the August 2023 Soho show I curated Intuition Goes Before You.
Gal Schindler
Schindler graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art and the Royal College of Art. Her works are rather ethereal and calming, using soft palettes to include her characters in a quiet, empty environment, which adds to this feeling of calmness and playfulness within the empty space.
Ingrid Berthone-Moine
Her artistic practice, spanning sculpture, drawing and video, explores the physical and cultural dimensions of the human body. Drawing inspiration from diverse sources such as language, psychoanalysis, and feminism, Berthon-Moine weaves personal narratives into her work, challenging conventional understandings of human experiences such as sexuality. In the midst of the contemporary discourse on gender, Berthon-Moine critically examines the structure of the French language, her mother tongue, highlighting its inherent misogynistic bias.
Gill Button
London-based painter Gill Button is known for her captivating translation of found imagery, creating gestural, intimate portraits that are deeply personal and intuitive. Capturing moments of wonder, melancholy, strength or vulnerability, Button’s practice makes us question how we connect to each other, but ultimately to ourselves. Her larger canvases, often cinematic in nature, depict moments of contemplation; evocative of distant dreams, fears or memories.
Current projects: I am currently writing a piece for Eva Dixon's soon-to-be-published book Professional Girl Guide and am working with the platform Daa Art on their upcoming exhibitions and long-term plans of working with a mix of emerging artists bridging a conversation with European and Middle-Eastern art. Some other projects are also in the making but will need to wait a bit before announcing, some outside the UK as well... so watch this space!
Vittoria Beltrame is a curator, writer and advisor. Her practice in curating focuses on emerging artists whose creative talent deserves to be brought to light and be seen worldwide. She is highly interested in transhistorical themes, hence her interest and appreciation for a multitude of art movements and artists that she believes reflect timeless forms of talent. After graduating from Christie’s with an MSc in Art, Law and Business she has curated and worked on a number of projects in Central London.
Melania Toma
Toma’s works encapsulate different worlds within one through the exploration of raw earth materials such as wool, sand, and pigment powders mixed to create paint. The materiality used in Melania’s works speaks of further connections of universal language that unite all existence, her two-dimensional canvases transformed into sculptural works with the application of such materials, highlighting the connection between nature and her works. For this introspective process of the just-mentioned connection, her residency at Fundación Casa Wabi in Mexico was crucial.
Kay Gasei
Kay Gasei’s works have a narrative that makes attentive use of symbolism and mythology, giving the audience a sense of intimate mysteriousness due to the intricate details and embedded stories to discover. I was first introduced to Kay's work through an exhibition I curated in October 2021 in Soho, together with artists Naila Hazell and Abi Joy Samuel, who are also included in this list.
Eva Dixon
She investigates materials and subverts their purpose to fit a need within the work. The geometric forms in her work are pulled from construction, mirroring the appropriated materials she uses. Dixon blurs the lines between painting, sculpture and craft, investigating how the relationship between opacity and transparency can expose the structure and surface as one. Dixon’s work offers a site to question the making process and the binaries between labours. I have worked with her for my curated show Intuition Goes Before You in August 2023 in Soho, and she is also publishing a book about her practice which she kindly asked me to participate in - very exciting.
Lydia Hamblet
Lydia’s work differs greatly in size, from diptychs to smaller canvases and works with a distinct level of detail and experimentation - yet her gesture on the canvas is ever-present and recognisable. Her paintings delve into topics of weather, doing so by evoking thought-provoking responses to her abstract landscape works, where the audience interprets what they see, from trees to faces to symphonies of colour. She was also included in my curated selection of last month's Art on a Postcard auction.
Cecilia Fiona
Since first noticing Cecilia Fiona’s works last year, her ambiguous, enchanting dream-like landscapes and characters have strongly intrigued me, reminding me of artists such as Chagall. It was also exciting to meet her recently and have her participate in my curated selection for last month’s International Women’s Day auction through Art on a Postcard.
Isabella Amram
Isabella’s art practice is a ritual; everything from preparing the materials, to the use of colour and scale, to a piece being reworked or left alone, to the use of her body, is part of this ritual. She uses ritual as a way of inducing and processing states of transformation and uncertainty, through material and bodily gestures of disintegration, embodiment, and enduring stillness.
Naila Hazell
Naila grew up in Azerbaijan but currently lives and works in London. She was taught by renowned Soviet social realist painter Boyukagha Mirzezade while studying fine arts and getting her MA at the Azerbaijani Fine Arts Academy. Hazell has had numerous solo and group shows in Baku and now, with her studio based in West London, she is continuing her work and exhibiting in the UK. A figurative artist working mainly in oil and acrylic, she's also expanding her practices with different media for some of her future conceptual art projects. I had the pleasure of working with her for an exhibition I curated in October 2021.
Abi Joy Samuel
Abi is a multi-award-winning fine artist based in London. Working predominantly in charcoal on paper, Abi embarks on a spiritual journey to grasp the ephemeral nature of life. She achieves this by drawing from personal film footage without interruption, occasionally rewinding the video. I initially worked with her in the same show as Kay Gasei and Nailza Hazell, and I soon after curated a solo show of her works in Notting Hill in March 2023.
Harriet Gillet
Responding to an increasingly digitalised world where images and time periods merge and appear in one seemingly eternal present, Harriet Gillett hopes to slow down these increasingly fast-paced encounters into images of reverie. Taking reference from the emotionally charged vibrancy of post-Impressionism and the devotional nature of Western religious formats, her combination of traditional subjects with contemporary materials enables her to tread a line between multiple perspectives and time periods.
Manon Steyaert
Manon is a French-British artist based in London. Her practice is situated between the two worlds of painting and sculpture, able to create both wall-based works and free-standing abstract sculptures. With a strong background in fashion as well as art, she pays homage to both traditional and non-traditional mediums throughout her practice, with a focus on the material of silicone and its playfulness.
Kim Booker
Typically painted on larger canvases and charged with bright colours and feminine figures that appear in particular poses, her works are real show-stoppers. She explained to me once when visiting her studio that her works are created intuitively and the painting process is gestural. Especially due to the size of the canvas, Kim would have to move around it, stretching herself often to reach all angles of the surface. This makes her paintings almost performative in a way, in any case especially physical and expressive when thinking about this painting process. Despite this, her works remain rather delicate, perhaps due to the feminine subject matter. I first encountered Kim’s works in a group show in central London at the end of 2022.
Mia Wilkinson
Mia Wilkinson is a London-based artist, whose oil paintings are visceral explorations of certain sexualised female forms. The sensual indulgence with which she approaches the paint is reflective of her subject; female bodybuilders and squashers wrestle on the canvas in an orgy of drips and loaded excess paint. The humorous and lighthearted intention with which she approaches her work is not lost, as complex issues of sex and gender are confronted by her brush.
Rebecca Hardaker
Rebecca Hardaker is a visual artist painting directly with her hands, making her work a tactile experience of expression. She works from reality as she creates abstract forms and shapes, presenting to the audience abstract landscape paintings with imaginative details, while sometimes incorporating excerpts from inspiring texts. She featured in the August 2023 Soho show I curated Intuition Goes Before You.
Gal Schindler
Schindler graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art and the Royal College of Art. Her works are rather ethereal and calming, using soft palettes to include her characters in a quiet, empty environment, which adds to this feeling of calmness and playfulness within the empty space.
Ingrid Berthone-Moine
Her artistic practice, spanning sculpture, drawing and video, explores the physical and cultural dimensions of the human body. Drawing inspiration from diverse sources such as language, psychoanalysis, and feminism, Berthon-Moine weaves personal narratives into her work, challenging conventional understandings of human experiences such as sexuality. In the midst of the contemporary discourse on gender, Berthon-Moine critically examines the structure of the French language, her mother tongue, highlighting its inherent misogynistic bias.
Gill Button
London-based painter Gill Button is known for her captivating translation of found imagery, creating gestural, intimate portraits that are deeply personal and intuitive. Capturing moments of wonder, melancholy, strength or vulnerability, Button’s practice makes us question how we connect to each other, but ultimately to ourselves. Her larger canvases, often cinematic in nature, depict moments of contemplation; evocative of distant dreams, fears or memories.
Current projects: I am currently writing a piece for Eva Dixon's soon-to-be-published book Professional Girl Guide and am working with the platform Daa Art on their upcoming exhibitions and long-term plans of working with a mix of emerging artists bridging a conversation with European and Middle-Eastern art. Some other projects are also in the making but will need to wait a bit before announcing, some outside the UK as well... so watch this space!
Vittoria Beltrame is a curator, writer and advisor. Her practice in curating focuses on emerging artists whose creative talent deserves to be brought to light and be seen worldwide. She is highly interested in transhistorical themes, hence her interest and appreciation for a multitude of art movements and artists that she believes reflect timeless forms of talent. After graduating from Christie’s with an MSc in Art, Law and Business she has curated and worked on a number of projects in Central London.
Melania Toma
Toma’s works encapsulate different worlds within one through the exploration of raw earth materials such as wool, sand, and pigment powders mixed to create paint. The materiality used in Melania’s works speaks of further connections of universal language that unite all existence, her two-dimensional canvases transformed into sculptural works with the application of such materials, highlighting the connection between nature and her works. For this introspective process of the just-mentioned connection, her residency at Fundación Casa Wabi in Mexico was crucial.
Kay Gasei
Kay Gasei’s works have a narrative that makes attentive use of symbolism and mythology, giving the audience a sense of intimate mysteriousness due to the intricate details and embedded stories to discover. I was first introduced to Kay's work through an exhibition I curated in October 2021 in Soho, together with artists Naila Hazell and Abi Joy Samuel, who are also included in this list.
Eva Dixon
She investigates materials and subverts their purpose to fit a need within the work. The geometric forms in her work are pulled from construction, mirroring the appropriated materials she uses. Dixon blurs the lines between painting, sculpture and craft, investigating how the relationship between opacity and transparency can expose the structure and surface as one. Dixon’s work offers a site to question the making process and the binaries between labours. I have worked with her for my curated show Intuition Goes Before You in August 2023 in Soho, and she is also publishing a book about her practice which she kindly asked me to participate in - very exciting.
Lydia Hamblet
Lydia’s work differs greatly in size, from diptychs to smaller canvases and works with a distinct level of detail and experimentation - yet her gesture on the canvas is ever-present and recognisable. Her paintings delve into topics of weather, doing so by evoking thought-provoking responses to her abstract landscape works, where the audience interprets what they see, from trees to faces to symphonies of colour. She was also included in my curated selection of last month's Art on a Postcard auction.
Cecilia Fiona
Since first noticing Cecilia Fiona’s works last year, her ambiguous, enchanting dream-like landscapes and characters have strongly intrigued me, reminding me of artists such as Chagall. It was also exciting to meet her recently and have her participate in my curated selection for last month’s International Women’s Day auction through Art on a Postcard.
Isabella Amram
Isabella’s art practice is a ritual; everything from preparing the materials, to the use of colour and scale, to a piece being reworked or left alone, to the use of her body, is part of this ritual. She uses ritual as a way of inducing and processing states of transformation and uncertainty, through material and bodily gestures of disintegration, embodiment, and enduring stillness.
Naila Hazell
Naila grew up in Azerbaijan but currently lives and works in London. She was taught by renowned Soviet social realist painter Boyukagha Mirzezade while studying fine arts and getting her MA at the Azerbaijani Fine Arts Academy. Hazell has had numerous solo and group shows in Baku and now, with her studio based in West London, she is continuing her work and exhibiting in the UK. A figurative artist working mainly in oil and acrylic, she's also expanding her practices with different media for some of her future conceptual art projects. I had the pleasure of working with her for an exhibition I curated in October 2021.
Abi Joy Samuel
Abi is a multi-award-winning fine artist based in London. Working predominantly in charcoal on paper, Abi embarks on a spiritual journey to grasp the ephemeral nature of life. She achieves this by drawing from personal film footage without interruption, occasionally rewinding the video. I initially worked with her in the same show as Kay Gasei and Nailza Hazell, and I soon after curated a solo show of her works in Notting Hill in March 2023.
Harriet Gillet
Responding to an increasingly digitalised world where images and time periods merge and appear in one seemingly eternal present, Harriet Gillett hopes to slow down these increasingly fast-paced encounters into images of reverie. Taking reference from the emotionally charged vibrancy of post-Impressionism and the devotional nature of Western religious formats, her combination of traditional subjects with contemporary materials enables her to tread a line between multiple perspectives and time periods.
Manon Steyaert
Manon is a French-British artist based in London. Her practice is situated between the two worlds of painting and sculpture, able to create both wall-based works and free-standing abstract sculptures. With a strong background in fashion as well as art, she pays homage to both traditional and non-traditional mediums throughout her practice, with a focus on the material of silicone and its playfulness.
Kim Booker
Typically painted on larger canvases and charged with bright colours and feminine figures that appear in particular poses, her works are real show-stoppers. She explained to me once when visiting her studio that her works are created intuitively and the painting process is gestural. Especially due to the size of the canvas, Kim would have to move around it, stretching herself often to reach all angles of the surface. This makes her paintings almost performative in a way, in any case especially physical and expressive when thinking about this painting process. Despite this, her works remain rather delicate, perhaps due to the feminine subject matter. I first encountered Kim’s works in a group show in central London at the end of 2022.
Mia Wilkinson
Mia Wilkinson is a London-based artist, whose oil paintings are visceral explorations of certain sexualised female forms. The sensual indulgence with which she approaches the paint is reflective of her subject; female bodybuilders and squashers wrestle on the canvas in an orgy of drips and loaded excess paint. The humorous and lighthearted intention with which she approaches her work is not lost, as complex issues of sex and gender are confronted by her brush.
Rebecca Hardaker
Rebecca Hardaker is a visual artist painting directly with her hands, making her work a tactile experience of expression. She works from reality as she creates abstract forms and shapes, presenting to the audience abstract landscape paintings with imaginative details, while sometimes incorporating excerpts from inspiring texts. She featured in the August 2023 Soho show I curated Intuition Goes Before You.
Gal Schindler
Schindler graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art and the Royal College of Art. Her works are rather ethereal and calming, using soft palettes to include her characters in a quiet, empty environment, which adds to this feeling of calmness and playfulness within the empty space.
Ingrid Berthone-Moine
Her artistic practice, spanning sculpture, drawing and video, explores the physical and cultural dimensions of the human body. Drawing inspiration from diverse sources such as language, psychoanalysis, and feminism, Berthon-Moine weaves personal narratives into her work, challenging conventional understandings of human experiences such as sexuality. In the midst of the contemporary discourse on gender, Berthon-Moine critically examines the structure of the French language, her mother tongue, highlighting its inherent misogynistic bias.
Gill Button
London-based painter Gill Button is known for her captivating translation of found imagery, creating gestural, intimate portraits that are deeply personal and intuitive. Capturing moments of wonder, melancholy, strength or vulnerability, Button’s practice makes us question how we connect to each other, but ultimately to ourselves. Her larger canvases, often cinematic in nature, depict moments of contemplation; evocative of distant dreams, fears or memories.
Current projects: I am currently writing a piece for Eva Dixon's soon-to-be-published book Professional Girl Guide and am working with the platform Daa Art on their upcoming exhibitions and long-term plans of working with a mix of emerging artists bridging a conversation with European and Middle-Eastern art. Some other projects are also in the making but will need to wait a bit before announcing, some outside the UK as well... so watch this space!
Vittoria Beltrame is a curator, writer and advisor. Her practice in curating focuses on emerging artists whose creative talent deserves to be brought to light and be seen worldwide. She is highly interested in transhistorical themes, hence her interest and appreciation for a multitude of art movements and artists that she believes reflect timeless forms of talent. After graduating from Christie’s with an MSc in Art, Law and Business she has curated and worked on a number of projects in Central London.
Melania Toma
Toma’s works encapsulate different worlds within one through the exploration of raw earth materials such as wool, sand, and pigment powders mixed to create paint. The materiality used in Melania’s works speaks of further connections of universal language that unite all existence, her two-dimensional canvases transformed into sculptural works with the application of such materials, highlighting the connection between nature and her works. For this introspective process of the just-mentioned connection, her residency at Fundación Casa Wabi in Mexico was crucial.
Kay Gasei
Kay Gasei’s works have a narrative that makes attentive use of symbolism and mythology, giving the audience a sense of intimate mysteriousness due to the intricate details and embedded stories to discover. I was first introduced to Kay's work through an exhibition I curated in October 2021 in Soho, together with artists Naila Hazell and Abi Joy Samuel, who are also included in this list.
Eva Dixon
She investigates materials and subverts their purpose to fit a need within the work. The geometric forms in her work are pulled from construction, mirroring the appropriated materials she uses. Dixon blurs the lines between painting, sculpture and craft, investigating how the relationship between opacity and transparency can expose the structure and surface as one. Dixon’s work offers a site to question the making process and the binaries between labours. I have worked with her for my curated show Intuition Goes Before You in August 2023 in Soho, and she is also publishing a book about her practice which she kindly asked me to participate in - very exciting.
Lydia Hamblet
Lydia’s work differs greatly in size, from diptychs to smaller canvases and works with a distinct level of detail and experimentation - yet her gesture on the canvas is ever-present and recognisable. Her paintings delve into topics of weather, doing so by evoking thought-provoking responses to her abstract landscape works, where the audience interprets what they see, from trees to faces to symphonies of colour. She was also included in my curated selection of last month's Art on a Postcard auction.
Cecilia Fiona
Since first noticing Cecilia Fiona’s works last year, her ambiguous, enchanting dream-like landscapes and characters have strongly intrigued me, reminding me of artists such as Chagall. It was also exciting to meet her recently and have her participate in my curated selection for last month’s International Women’s Day auction through Art on a Postcard.
Isabella Amram
Isabella’s art practice is a ritual; everything from preparing the materials, to the use of colour and scale, to a piece being reworked or left alone, to the use of her body, is part of this ritual. She uses ritual as a way of inducing and processing states of transformation and uncertainty, through material and bodily gestures of disintegration, embodiment, and enduring stillness.
Naila Hazell
Naila grew up in Azerbaijan but currently lives and works in London. She was taught by renowned Soviet social realist painter Boyukagha Mirzezade while studying fine arts and getting her MA at the Azerbaijani Fine Arts Academy. Hazell has had numerous solo and group shows in Baku and now, with her studio based in West London, she is continuing her work and exhibiting in the UK. A figurative artist working mainly in oil and acrylic, she's also expanding her practices with different media for some of her future conceptual art projects. I had the pleasure of working with her for an exhibition I curated in October 2021.
Abi Joy Samuel
Abi is a multi-award-winning fine artist based in London. Working predominantly in charcoal on paper, Abi embarks on a spiritual journey to grasp the ephemeral nature of life. She achieves this by drawing from personal film footage without interruption, occasionally rewinding the video. I initially worked with her in the same show as Kay Gasei and Nailza Hazell, and I soon after curated a solo show of her works in Notting Hill in March 2023.
Harriet Gillet
Responding to an increasingly digitalised world where images and time periods merge and appear in one seemingly eternal present, Harriet Gillett hopes to slow down these increasingly fast-paced encounters into images of reverie. Taking reference from the emotionally charged vibrancy of post-Impressionism and the devotional nature of Western religious formats, her combination of traditional subjects with contemporary materials enables her to tread a line between multiple perspectives and time periods.
Manon Steyaert
Manon is a French-British artist based in London. Her practice is situated between the two worlds of painting and sculpture, able to create both wall-based works and free-standing abstract sculptures. With a strong background in fashion as well as art, she pays homage to both traditional and non-traditional mediums throughout her practice, with a focus on the material of silicone and its playfulness.
Kim Booker
Typically painted on larger canvases and charged with bright colours and feminine figures that appear in particular poses, her works are real show-stoppers. She explained to me once when visiting her studio that her works are created intuitively and the painting process is gestural. Especially due to the size of the canvas, Kim would have to move around it, stretching herself often to reach all angles of the surface. This makes her paintings almost performative in a way, in any case especially physical and expressive when thinking about this painting process. Despite this, her works remain rather delicate, perhaps due to the feminine subject matter. I first encountered Kim’s works in a group show in central London at the end of 2022.
Mia Wilkinson
Mia Wilkinson is a London-based artist, whose oil paintings are visceral explorations of certain sexualised female forms. The sensual indulgence with which she approaches the paint is reflective of her subject; female bodybuilders and squashers wrestle on the canvas in an orgy of drips and loaded excess paint. The humorous and lighthearted intention with which she approaches her work is not lost, as complex issues of sex and gender are confronted by her brush.
Rebecca Hardaker
Rebecca Hardaker is a visual artist painting directly with her hands, making her work a tactile experience of expression. She works from reality as she creates abstract forms and shapes, presenting to the audience abstract landscape paintings with imaginative details, while sometimes incorporating excerpts from inspiring texts. She featured in the August 2023 Soho show I curated Intuition Goes Before You.
Gal Schindler
Schindler graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art and the Royal College of Art. Her works are rather ethereal and calming, using soft palettes to include her characters in a quiet, empty environment, which adds to this feeling of calmness and playfulness within the empty space.
Ingrid Berthone-Moine
Her artistic practice, spanning sculpture, drawing and video, explores the physical and cultural dimensions of the human body. Drawing inspiration from diverse sources such as language, psychoanalysis, and feminism, Berthon-Moine weaves personal narratives into her work, challenging conventional understandings of human experiences such as sexuality. In the midst of the contemporary discourse on gender, Berthon-Moine critically examines the structure of the French language, her mother tongue, highlighting its inherent misogynistic bias.
Gill Button
London-based painter Gill Button is known for her captivating translation of found imagery, creating gestural, intimate portraits that are deeply personal and intuitive. Capturing moments of wonder, melancholy, strength or vulnerability, Button’s practice makes us question how we connect to each other, but ultimately to ourselves. Her larger canvases, often cinematic in nature, depict moments of contemplation; evocative of distant dreams, fears or memories.
Current projects: I am currently writing a piece for Eva Dixon's soon-to-be-published book Professional Girl Guide and am working with the platform Daa Art on their upcoming exhibitions and long-term plans of working with a mix of emerging artists bridging a conversation with European and Middle-Eastern art. Some other projects are also in the making but will need to wait a bit before announcing, some outside the UK as well... so watch this space!
Vittoria Beltrame is a curator, writer and advisor. Her practice in curating focuses on emerging artists whose creative talent deserves to be brought to light and be seen worldwide. She is highly interested in transhistorical themes, hence her interest and appreciation for a multitude of art movements and artists that she believes reflect timeless forms of talent. After graduating from Christie’s with an MSc in Art, Law and Business she has curated and worked on a number of projects in Central London.
Melania Toma
Toma’s works encapsulate different worlds within one through the exploration of raw earth materials such as wool, sand, and pigment powders mixed to create paint. The materiality used in Melania’s works speaks of further connections of universal language that unite all existence, her two-dimensional canvases transformed into sculptural works with the application of such materials, highlighting the connection between nature and her works. For this introspective process of the just-mentioned connection, her residency at Fundación Casa Wabi in Mexico was crucial.
Kay Gasei
Kay Gasei’s works have a narrative that makes attentive use of symbolism and mythology, giving the audience a sense of intimate mysteriousness due to the intricate details and embedded stories to discover. I was first introduced to Kay's work through an exhibition I curated in October 2021 in Soho, together with artists Naila Hazell and Abi Joy Samuel, who are also included in this list.
Eva Dixon
She investigates materials and subverts their purpose to fit a need within the work. The geometric forms in her work are pulled from construction, mirroring the appropriated materials she uses. Dixon blurs the lines between painting, sculpture and craft, investigating how the relationship between opacity and transparency can expose the structure and surface as one. Dixon’s work offers a site to question the making process and the binaries between labours. I have worked with her for my curated show Intuition Goes Before You in August 2023 in Soho, and she is also publishing a book about her practice which she kindly asked me to participate in - very exciting.
Lydia Hamblet
Lydia’s work differs greatly in size, from diptychs to smaller canvases and works with a distinct level of detail and experimentation - yet her gesture on the canvas is ever-present and recognisable. Her paintings delve into topics of weather, doing so by evoking thought-provoking responses to her abstract landscape works, where the audience interprets what they see, from trees to faces to symphonies of colour. She was also included in my curated selection of last month's Art on a Postcard auction.
Cecilia Fiona
Since first noticing Cecilia Fiona’s works last year, her ambiguous, enchanting dream-like landscapes and characters have strongly intrigued me, reminding me of artists such as Chagall. It was also exciting to meet her recently and have her participate in my curated selection for last month’s International Women’s Day auction through Art on a Postcard.
Isabella Amram
Isabella’s art practice is a ritual; everything from preparing the materials, to the use of colour and scale, to a piece being reworked or left alone, to the use of her body, is part of this ritual. She uses ritual as a way of inducing and processing states of transformation and uncertainty, through material and bodily gestures of disintegration, embodiment, and enduring stillness.
Naila Hazell
Naila grew up in Azerbaijan but currently lives and works in London. She was taught by renowned Soviet social realist painter Boyukagha Mirzezade while studying fine arts and getting her MA at the Azerbaijani Fine Arts Academy. Hazell has had numerous solo and group shows in Baku and now, with her studio based in West London, she is continuing her work and exhibiting in the UK. A figurative artist working mainly in oil and acrylic, she's also expanding her practices with different media for some of her future conceptual art projects. I had the pleasure of working with her for an exhibition I curated in October 2021.
Abi Joy Samuel
Abi is a multi-award-winning fine artist based in London. Working predominantly in charcoal on paper, Abi embarks on a spiritual journey to grasp the ephemeral nature of life. She achieves this by drawing from personal film footage without interruption, occasionally rewinding the video. I initially worked with her in the same show as Kay Gasei and Nailza Hazell, and I soon after curated a solo show of her works in Notting Hill in March 2023.
Harriet Gillet
Responding to an increasingly digitalised world where images and time periods merge and appear in one seemingly eternal present, Harriet Gillett hopes to slow down these increasingly fast-paced encounters into images of reverie. Taking reference from the emotionally charged vibrancy of post-Impressionism and the devotional nature of Western religious formats, her combination of traditional subjects with contemporary materials enables her to tread a line between multiple perspectives and time periods.
Manon Steyaert
Manon is a French-British artist based in London. Her practice is situated between the two worlds of painting and sculpture, able to create both wall-based works and free-standing abstract sculptures. With a strong background in fashion as well as art, she pays homage to both traditional and non-traditional mediums throughout her practice, with a focus on the material of silicone and its playfulness.
Kim Booker
Typically painted on larger canvases and charged with bright colours and feminine figures that appear in particular poses, her works are real show-stoppers. She explained to me once when visiting her studio that her works are created intuitively and the painting process is gestural. Especially due to the size of the canvas, Kim would have to move around it, stretching herself often to reach all angles of the surface. This makes her paintings almost performative in a way, in any case especially physical and expressive when thinking about this painting process. Despite this, her works remain rather delicate, perhaps due to the feminine subject matter. I first encountered Kim’s works in a group show in central London at the end of 2022.
Mia Wilkinson
Mia Wilkinson is a London-based artist, whose oil paintings are visceral explorations of certain sexualised female forms. The sensual indulgence with which she approaches the paint is reflective of her subject; female bodybuilders and squashers wrestle on the canvas in an orgy of drips and loaded excess paint. The humorous and lighthearted intention with which she approaches her work is not lost, as complex issues of sex and gender are confronted by her brush.
Rebecca Hardaker
Rebecca Hardaker is a visual artist painting directly with her hands, making her work a tactile experience of expression. She works from reality as she creates abstract forms and shapes, presenting to the audience abstract landscape paintings with imaginative details, while sometimes incorporating excerpts from inspiring texts. She featured in the August 2023 Soho show I curated Intuition Goes Before You.
Gal Schindler
Schindler graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art and the Royal College of Art. Her works are rather ethereal and calming, using soft palettes to include her characters in a quiet, empty environment, which adds to this feeling of calmness and playfulness within the empty space.
Ingrid Berthone-Moine
Her artistic practice, spanning sculpture, drawing and video, explores the physical and cultural dimensions of the human body. Drawing inspiration from diverse sources such as language, psychoanalysis, and feminism, Berthon-Moine weaves personal narratives into her work, challenging conventional understandings of human experiences such as sexuality. In the midst of the contemporary discourse on gender, Berthon-Moine critically examines the structure of the French language, her mother tongue, highlighting its inherent misogynistic bias.
Gill Button
London-based painter Gill Button is known for her captivating translation of found imagery, creating gestural, intimate portraits that are deeply personal and intuitive. Capturing moments of wonder, melancholy, strength or vulnerability, Button’s practice makes us question how we connect to each other, but ultimately to ourselves. Her larger canvases, often cinematic in nature, depict moments of contemplation; evocative of distant dreams, fears or memories.
Current projects: I am currently writing a piece for Eva Dixon's soon-to-be-published book Professional Girl Guide and am working with the platform Daa Art on their upcoming exhibitions and long-term plans of working with a mix of emerging artists bridging a conversation with European and Middle-Eastern art. Some other projects are also in the making but will need to wait a bit before announcing, some outside the UK as well... so watch this space!
Vittoria Beltrame is a curator, writer and advisor. Her practice in curating focuses on emerging artists whose creative talent deserves to be brought to light and be seen worldwide. She is highly interested in transhistorical themes, hence her interest and appreciation for a multitude of art movements and artists that she believes reflect timeless forms of talent. After graduating from Christie’s with an MSc in Art, Law and Business she has curated and worked on a number of projects in Central London.
Melania Toma
Toma’s works encapsulate different worlds within one through the exploration of raw earth materials such as wool, sand, and pigment powders mixed to create paint. The materiality used in Melania’s works speaks of further connections of universal language that unite all existence, her two-dimensional canvases transformed into sculptural works with the application of such materials, highlighting the connection between nature and her works. For this introspective process of the just-mentioned connection, her residency at Fundación Casa Wabi in Mexico was crucial.
Kay Gasei
Kay Gasei’s works have a narrative that makes attentive use of symbolism and mythology, giving the audience a sense of intimate mysteriousness due to the intricate details and embedded stories to discover. I was first introduced to Kay's work through an exhibition I curated in October 2021 in Soho, together with artists Naila Hazell and Abi Joy Samuel, who are also included in this list.
Eva Dixon
She investigates materials and subverts their purpose to fit a need within the work. The geometric forms in her work are pulled from construction, mirroring the appropriated materials she uses. Dixon blurs the lines between painting, sculpture and craft, investigating how the relationship between opacity and transparency can expose the structure and surface as one. Dixon’s work offers a site to question the making process and the binaries between labours. I have worked with her for my curated show Intuition Goes Before You in August 2023 in Soho, and she is also publishing a book about her practice which she kindly asked me to participate in - very exciting.
Lydia Hamblet
Lydia’s work differs greatly in size, from diptychs to smaller canvases and works with a distinct level of detail and experimentation - yet her gesture on the canvas is ever-present and recognisable. Her paintings delve into topics of weather, doing so by evoking thought-provoking responses to her abstract landscape works, where the audience interprets what they see, from trees to faces to symphonies of colour. She was also included in my curated selection of last month's Art on a Postcard auction.
Cecilia Fiona
Since first noticing Cecilia Fiona’s works last year, her ambiguous, enchanting dream-like landscapes and characters have strongly intrigued me, reminding me of artists such as Chagall. It was also exciting to meet her recently and have her participate in my curated selection for last month’s International Women’s Day auction through Art on a Postcard.
Isabella Amram
Isabella’s art practice is a ritual; everything from preparing the materials, to the use of colour and scale, to a piece being reworked or left alone, to the use of her body, is part of this ritual. She uses ritual as a way of inducing and processing states of transformation and uncertainty, through material and bodily gestures of disintegration, embodiment, and enduring stillness.
Naila Hazell
Naila grew up in Azerbaijan but currently lives and works in London. She was taught by renowned Soviet social realist painter Boyukagha Mirzezade while studying fine arts and getting her MA at the Azerbaijani Fine Arts Academy. Hazell has had numerous solo and group shows in Baku and now, with her studio based in West London, she is continuing her work and exhibiting in the UK. A figurative artist working mainly in oil and acrylic, she's also expanding her practices with different media for some of her future conceptual art projects. I had the pleasure of working with her for an exhibition I curated in October 2021.
Abi Joy Samuel
Abi is a multi-award-winning fine artist based in London. Working predominantly in charcoal on paper, Abi embarks on a spiritual journey to grasp the ephemeral nature of life. She achieves this by drawing from personal film footage without interruption, occasionally rewinding the video. I initially worked with her in the same show as Kay Gasei and Nailza Hazell, and I soon after curated a solo show of her works in Notting Hill in March 2023.
Harriet Gillet
Responding to an increasingly digitalised world where images and time periods merge and appear in one seemingly eternal present, Harriet Gillett hopes to slow down these increasingly fast-paced encounters into images of reverie. Taking reference from the emotionally charged vibrancy of post-Impressionism and the devotional nature of Western religious formats, her combination of traditional subjects with contemporary materials enables her to tread a line between multiple perspectives and time periods.
Manon Steyaert
Manon is a French-British artist based in London. Her practice is situated between the two worlds of painting and sculpture, able to create both wall-based works and free-standing abstract sculptures. With a strong background in fashion as well as art, she pays homage to both traditional and non-traditional mediums throughout her practice, with a focus on the material of silicone and its playfulness.
Kim Booker
Typically painted on larger canvases and charged with bright colours and feminine figures that appear in particular poses, her works are real show-stoppers. She explained to me once when visiting her studio that her works are created intuitively and the painting process is gestural. Especially due to the size of the canvas, Kim would have to move around it, stretching herself often to reach all angles of the surface. This makes her paintings almost performative in a way, in any case especially physical and expressive when thinking about this painting process. Despite this, her works remain rather delicate, perhaps due to the feminine subject matter. I first encountered Kim’s works in a group show in central London at the end of 2022.
Mia Wilkinson
Mia Wilkinson is a London-based artist, whose oil paintings are visceral explorations of certain sexualised female forms. The sensual indulgence with which she approaches the paint is reflective of her subject; female bodybuilders and squashers wrestle on the canvas in an orgy of drips and loaded excess paint. The humorous and lighthearted intention with which she approaches her work is not lost, as complex issues of sex and gender are confronted by her brush.
Rebecca Hardaker
Rebecca Hardaker is a visual artist painting directly with her hands, making her work a tactile experience of expression. She works from reality as she creates abstract forms and shapes, presenting to the audience abstract landscape paintings with imaginative details, while sometimes incorporating excerpts from inspiring texts. She featured in the August 2023 Soho show I curated Intuition Goes Before You.
Gal Schindler
Schindler graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art and the Royal College of Art. Her works are rather ethereal and calming, using soft palettes to include her characters in a quiet, empty environment, which adds to this feeling of calmness and playfulness within the empty space.
Ingrid Berthone-Moine
Her artistic practice, spanning sculpture, drawing and video, explores the physical and cultural dimensions of the human body. Drawing inspiration from diverse sources such as language, psychoanalysis, and feminism, Berthon-Moine weaves personal narratives into her work, challenging conventional understandings of human experiences such as sexuality. In the midst of the contemporary discourse on gender, Berthon-Moine critically examines the structure of the French language, her mother tongue, highlighting its inherent misogynistic bias.
Gill Button
London-based painter Gill Button is known for her captivating translation of found imagery, creating gestural, intimate portraits that are deeply personal and intuitive. Capturing moments of wonder, melancholy, strength or vulnerability, Button’s practice makes us question how we connect to each other, but ultimately to ourselves. Her larger canvases, often cinematic in nature, depict moments of contemplation; evocative of distant dreams, fears or memories.
Current projects: I am currently writing a piece for Eva Dixon's soon-to-be-published book Professional Girl Guide and am working with the platform Daa Art on their upcoming exhibitions and long-term plans of working with a mix of emerging artists bridging a conversation with European and Middle-Eastern art. Some other projects are also in the making but will need to wait a bit before announcing, some outside the UK as well... so watch this space!
Vittoria Beltrame is a curator, writer and advisor. Her practice in curating focuses on emerging artists whose creative talent deserves to be brought to light and be seen worldwide. She is highly interested in transhistorical themes, hence her interest and appreciation for a multitude of art movements and artists that she believes reflect timeless forms of talent. After graduating from Christie’s with an MSc in Art, Law and Business she has curated and worked on a number of projects in Central London.
Melania Toma
Toma’s works encapsulate different worlds within one through the exploration of raw earth materials such as wool, sand, and pigment powders mixed to create paint. The materiality used in Melania’s works speaks of further connections of universal language that unite all existence, her two-dimensional canvases transformed into sculptural works with the application of such materials, highlighting the connection between nature and her works. For this introspective process of the just-mentioned connection, her residency at Fundación Casa Wabi in Mexico was crucial.
Kay Gasei
Kay Gasei’s works have a narrative that makes attentive use of symbolism and mythology, giving the audience a sense of intimate mysteriousness due to the intricate details and embedded stories to discover. I was first introduced to Kay's work through an exhibition I curated in October 2021 in Soho, together with artists Naila Hazell and Abi Joy Samuel, who are also included in this list.
Eva Dixon
She investigates materials and subverts their purpose to fit a need within the work. The geometric forms in her work are pulled from construction, mirroring the appropriated materials she uses. Dixon blurs the lines between painting, sculpture and craft, investigating how the relationship between opacity and transparency can expose the structure and surface as one. Dixon’s work offers a site to question the making process and the binaries between labours. I have worked with her for my curated show Intuition Goes Before You in August 2023 in Soho, and she is also publishing a book about her practice which she kindly asked me to participate in - very exciting.
Lydia Hamblet
Lydia’s work differs greatly in size, from diptychs to smaller canvases and works with a distinct level of detail and experimentation - yet her gesture on the canvas is ever-present and recognisable. Her paintings delve into topics of weather, doing so by evoking thought-provoking responses to her abstract landscape works, where the audience interprets what they see, from trees to faces to symphonies of colour. She was also included in my curated selection of last month's Art on a Postcard auction.
Cecilia Fiona
Since first noticing Cecilia Fiona’s works last year, her ambiguous, enchanting dream-like landscapes and characters have strongly intrigued me, reminding me of artists such as Chagall. It was also exciting to meet her recently and have her participate in my curated selection for last month’s International Women’s Day auction through Art on a Postcard.
Isabella Amram
Isabella’s art practice is a ritual; everything from preparing the materials, to the use of colour and scale, to a piece being reworked or left alone, to the use of her body, is part of this ritual. She uses ritual as a way of inducing and processing states of transformation and uncertainty, through material and bodily gestures of disintegration, embodiment, and enduring stillness.
Naila Hazell
Naila grew up in Azerbaijan but currently lives and works in London. She was taught by renowned Soviet social realist painter Boyukagha Mirzezade while studying fine arts and getting her MA at the Azerbaijani Fine Arts Academy. Hazell has had numerous solo and group shows in Baku and now, with her studio based in West London, she is continuing her work and exhibiting in the UK. A figurative artist working mainly in oil and acrylic, she's also expanding her practices with different media for some of her future conceptual art projects. I had the pleasure of working with her for an exhibition I curated in October 2021.
Abi Joy Samuel
Abi is a multi-award-winning fine artist based in London. Working predominantly in charcoal on paper, Abi embarks on a spiritual journey to grasp the ephemeral nature of life. She achieves this by drawing from personal film footage without interruption, occasionally rewinding the video. I initially worked with her in the same show as Kay Gasei and Nailza Hazell, and I soon after curated a solo show of her works in Notting Hill in March 2023.
Harriet Gillet
Responding to an increasingly digitalised world where images and time periods merge and appear in one seemingly eternal present, Harriet Gillett hopes to slow down these increasingly fast-paced encounters into images of reverie. Taking reference from the emotionally charged vibrancy of post-Impressionism and the devotional nature of Western religious formats, her combination of traditional subjects with contemporary materials enables her to tread a line between multiple perspectives and time periods.
Manon Steyaert
Manon is a French-British artist based in London. Her practice is situated between the two worlds of painting and sculpture, able to create both wall-based works and free-standing abstract sculptures. With a strong background in fashion as well as art, she pays homage to both traditional and non-traditional mediums throughout her practice, with a focus on the material of silicone and its playfulness.
Kim Booker
Typically painted on larger canvases and charged with bright colours and feminine figures that appear in particular poses, her works are real show-stoppers. She explained to me once when visiting her studio that her works are created intuitively and the painting process is gestural. Especially due to the size of the canvas, Kim would have to move around it, stretching herself often to reach all angles of the surface. This makes her paintings almost performative in a way, in any case especially physical and expressive when thinking about this painting process. Despite this, her works remain rather delicate, perhaps due to the feminine subject matter. I first encountered Kim’s works in a group show in central London at the end of 2022.
Mia Wilkinson
Mia Wilkinson is a London-based artist, whose oil paintings are visceral explorations of certain sexualised female forms. The sensual indulgence with which she approaches the paint is reflective of her subject; female bodybuilders and squashers wrestle on the canvas in an orgy of drips and loaded excess paint. The humorous and lighthearted intention with which she approaches her work is not lost, as complex issues of sex and gender are confronted by her brush.
Rebecca Hardaker
Rebecca Hardaker is a visual artist painting directly with her hands, making her work a tactile experience of expression. She works from reality as she creates abstract forms and shapes, presenting to the audience abstract landscape paintings with imaginative details, while sometimes incorporating excerpts from inspiring texts. She featured in the August 2023 Soho show I curated Intuition Goes Before You.
Gal Schindler
Schindler graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art and the Royal College of Art. Her works are rather ethereal and calming, using soft palettes to include her characters in a quiet, empty environment, which adds to this feeling of calmness and playfulness within the empty space.
Ingrid Berthone-Moine
Her artistic practice, spanning sculpture, drawing and video, explores the physical and cultural dimensions of the human body. Drawing inspiration from diverse sources such as language, psychoanalysis, and feminism, Berthon-Moine weaves personal narratives into her work, challenging conventional understandings of human experiences such as sexuality. In the midst of the contemporary discourse on gender, Berthon-Moine critically examines the structure of the French language, her mother tongue, highlighting its inherent misogynistic bias.
Gill Button
London-based painter Gill Button is known for her captivating translation of found imagery, creating gestural, intimate portraits that are deeply personal and intuitive. Capturing moments of wonder, melancholy, strength or vulnerability, Button’s practice makes us question how we connect to each other, but ultimately to ourselves. Her larger canvases, often cinematic in nature, depict moments of contemplation; evocative of distant dreams, fears or memories.
Current projects: I am currently writing a piece for Eva Dixon's soon-to-be-published book Professional Girl Guide and am working with the platform Daa Art on their upcoming exhibitions and long-term plans of working with a mix of emerging artists bridging a conversation with European and Middle-Eastern art. Some other projects are also in the making but will need to wait a bit before announcing, some outside the UK as well... so watch this space!
