Alice Instone
I realise these maybe too messy for you guys but I love them so wanted to show you! Alice Instone is a fabulously creative artist. These ‘to do lists’ are part of her Pram in the Hall series. These are to do lists she gathered from numerous prominent and inspiring women . She also invited members of the public (who came in their thousands) to add their to-do lists to a large scale installation. Focusing on how our to-do lists reflect our state of mind, the series is a meditation on how we spend our time as women (from domestic chores to our work, from food shopping and washing machine repairs to socialising, manicures, children’s name tapes and taking pets to the vet). The project taps into the passage of time itself - each list a suspended moment - and the division of domestic work between men and women.
Alice has also worked with the United Nations, Oxfam, Chanel, the British Houses of Parliament, the Chateau Marmont and Tate Modern amongst others.
I would love to take you to go and see her studios in kent – she is a truly creative and inspiring artist and the works are brilliant
Giglee prints with hand applied glitter
Billy Childish
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Part of the YBA group of artists, Billy has gained something of a cult status worldwide, writing and publishing several novels and more than 40 volumes of confessional poetry, recording more than 170 LPs, and painting several hundred works. His paintings are subtle and subjects are often drawn from his environment or are people he knows or admires: birch forests, self-portraits, a lone figure in a pastoral English landscape, and his wife as a reclining female nude. He had a long term relationship with fellow YBA Tracey Emin. Currrently enjoying a huge surge in popularity his works can currently be viewed at Lehmann Maupin gallery in London. To read more about him
https://www.lehmannmaupin.com/artists/billy-childish/biography
I love his work
Pierre-Marie Brisson
A fabulous French artist that Paul and I met in New York in 1993 when we bought our first work in a gallery in Soho. I have a good relationship with his studio. These are a collection of his recent works but other shapes and sizes are also available. Using a collage technique, Brisson combines various elements in his compositions, imitating the rough surface of an ancient wall, the craquelure of old paint, the decorative pattern of wallpaper and woven fabric. Brisson’s art is avant-garde and ingenious, yet timeworn and antique. Other single works, dyptichs or tryptichs are available
https://www.franklinbowlesgallery.com/pierre-marie-brisson to give you an idea of the range of his work but if you would like to see more I can follow up for you
Dean West
We adore a cowboy or girl in the Hammersley family! Big into our country music so I love Dean West’s photographic work. – he is so cool. May not be your thing but I love them! If you have a look at
https://www.artitledcontemporary.com
you will see work by Dean West and his Heading South Series but also work by James Lewin, and Maria Svarbova and I like Moonwater Outer space y Michael Jahhar amongst others that you may like
Dean Wests works come in three sizes
151 x 151; 124 x 124 and 99 x 99 cm
Flora Yukhnovich
I went to see her show in Oxford last year and her career is just incredible at the moment. Currently represented by leading blue chip galleries Flora is acclaimed for paintings in which she adopts the language of Rococo, reimagining works by eighteenth-century artists such as Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, François Boucher, Nicolas Lancret and Jean-Antoine Watteau through a filter of contemporary cultural references including film, food and consumerism. Her works are big, bold and beautiful and thought would be spectacular in your drawing room – the price maybe too!