Billy Childish
Prices range depending on size from c £10k - 50k
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
Prices range depending on size and medium from £10 - 50k
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 www.pierre-marie-brisson.com/ to give you an idea of the range of his work.
Let me know if there’s anything that grabs you particularly and Pierre Marie makes new works regularly so any subject is available almost immediately.
Also if you would prefer a diptych or triptych he can make these for you too.
Dean West
Prices range depending on size from c. £6k - 10k
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
Richard Ballinger
Prices depend on size and medium but tend to be under £20k
Richard Ballinger does not draw in the landscape but draws from it. He takes them inside to the studio imagining how it should be. He makes up relative scenarios and creates the images from there. If he doesn't like the image a deconstruction will take place. His favourite part of the journey - the shifting, sanding and scraping of paint unearthing a brief history. The images are constructed with thick impasto paint, interlocking shapes or blocks of colour a nod to the symbolic style of post impressionist painter such a Paul Gauguin. His varied treatment of the painted surface, from the meticulous application of small brushstrokes to vigorous scraping away and scoring, evidences the painting process over time.
Rachael Tooth
Prices depend on size etc but tend to be under £5k
Rachel is an artist living and working in London. We have worked with her for the past ten years of so. she has won the Women in Art abstract painting prize two years in a row she was the winner of Art Gemini Painting prize 2024.
Her work is soft and flowing yet has an underlying energy and drama. She is having a show in March and would love to take you to go and meet her and see her work.
Alice Instone
Prices range but tend to be under £3500
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
Tom Hammick
Prices range from his original works to his prints which are under £10k
Tom Hammick is an artist living and working in London.
He is renowned for both his paintings and prints. Tom's respective studios for both, while geographically close to each other are in Deptford and South Bermondsey. Both practices are symbiotically interlinked and his time is divided equally between each medium. This connection is the reason for dovetailing both the paintings and the prints together.
Ian Davenport
Prices range - limited edition prints tend to be under £10k and originals £10k upwards
Another of the YBA he was shortlisted for a turner prize 1991 (youngest ever nominee). He is well known for his abstract paintings, which explore process and materiality. In recent years his work has consisted of carefully poured lines of acrylic paint down a surface, which puddle and pool at the bottom. This technique allows him to explore complex arrangements of line and colour. Over the past ten years he has turned his attention to screenprinting and etching, building up an impressive body of graphic work. He has show around the world including the Venice Biennale and is in numerous important museum collections including the Tate Pompidou centre and the new York and Dallas Museum of Art amongst a number of others. Can’t go wrong with Ian Davenport and thought might be an interesting companion to Bridget Riley
Phil Shaw
Tends to be under £10k
Professor Phil Shaw is a ground-breaking British digital-printmaker, who creates hyper-real images of great formal elegance and conceptual richness. His distinctive ‘bookshelf’ prints interrogate the changing place of the printed word in a digital age, and the transfer of meaning through inter-textuality. Depicting books arranged on shelves, their titles merge and melt, forming unexpected connections and new dynamics. These are images to explore and intrigue; they are clever, funny, unsettling, and beautiful.
We have worked a lot with Phil in the past commissioning him on a number of projects including Great Scotland Yard Hotel where he did a series on Crime Mysteries and for a private health office who wanted a piece of work that reflected the books that were inoprtant in the development of medicine around the world. In his words ‘My world is a place where humour is a serious matter, and it’s purpose is not simply to raise a laugh but to call attention to the puzzling absurdities and the dangerous myths, that permeate all our lives." I thought it might be fun to have a ‘bookcase’ made up of booktitles that meant something to you – the titles are often mixed up or humours in different ways - ie with adam and eve, and your love of Paris he would come up with a fun Gold related family theme
Jonathan Delafield Cook
Again depends on size but tend to be under £20k
Mesmerized by the natural world, charcoal artist Jonathan Delafield Cook dedicated career to illustrating animals and plants. His hyperrealistic drawings have a photographic quality, showing a richness of tones and convincing textures. Trained as an architectural draughtsperson in Japan, Cook had several solo exhibitions in London and Sydney; he received several awards for his images, including the 1994 Darwin Scholarship from the Royal College of Art and the 1995 Art Newspaper Award. Evoking scientific studies or taxonomic illustrations, his animal portraits—often to-scale or larger-than-life—celebrate the beauty of wildlife, from birds’ nests to whales to barnacles. They simultaneously exhibit a singular mastery of charcoal, demonstrating the sensuality this material can produce
James Hugonin
As he only produces about one work a year his prices range from £50k upwards
Represented by the Ingleby Gallery in Edinburgh I just thought these might appeal to you both. According to the gallery he is a rare creature - for the past 40 years he has produced work at an average roughly one large painting a year. The gallery always sell them to very good collections and there are major paintings in collections such as TATE, the National Gallery of Wales, the Arts Council etc.
The Fluctuations in Elliptical Form paintings, each at a little over two metres in height, are the largest paintings of James’ career, and the shift in scale matters - making the experience of the work slightly larger than our ability to take it in – creating an expanse of shimmering marks over which the eye moves, and the brain sinks. That passage between eye and brain is where these extraordinary paintings operate like no other, offering a slight sense of hypnosis and an inbuilt gentleness of pace that somehow determines the speed at which we see them.
https://inglebygallery-web-g9.artlogic.net/exhibitions/7144-james-hugonin/overview/
Kevin Harman
Tends to be around £10 - 25k but his larger works are more - the tryprichs below are around £40K and the duyptich are around £32k
One of the first paintings I bought, Kevin Harman is a charismatic, charming and highly creative. His series Glassworks, which these pieces belong to are created from pouring household paint through double glazing units thus making the transparent, noon transparent. He says they are positioned between painting and a sculpture and often appear to have some sort of reference to the places in art history where nature and abstraction collide such as Turners seascapes or Monet Gieverny but their origin is in the urban environment of 21st century Glasgow. The luminous and delicate forms that result belie the ordinariness of the materials and the physically demanding process of their making. He is a good friend and we could easily go and see him in his studio if you fancy a trip to Glasgow!
https://www.inglebygallery.com/artists/40-kevin-harman/overview/
Kilmany Jo
Reasonably priced again sending on size but tend to be under £10k
Just reflecting on the sweet painting in your daughters bathroom I thought you might like these works by South African artist Kilmany Jo. One of the first artists I sold when I set up AHA she draws inspiration from street culture and source portrait images from mass media and social networks.
https://www.everardlondon.com/artist/KILMANY-JO_LIVERSAGE/biography/
Lee Ann Heath
Range from under £5k - 10k
I’m not sure if you will like these but I saw them at a show last week and thought they might be rather fun in your top bedrooms. The works are incredibly lush botanical paintings and stem from the artists love of impasto and nature. The paint is thickly layered and the works are truly scrumptious https://www.everardlondon.com/exhibition/165/exhibition_works/4311
Nick Knight
Prices depend on size and edition number but start at around £16k for 63.5cm x 63.5cm up to £50k for works around 157 x 157cm
Have been speaking to his studio and the Flowers from My Garden series will be hung at the end of Feb in Nicks studio in London. – I would love to go and see them and maybe we can go together if you want? Happy to arrange. He has this series and also some others which I will send you
As you know Nick Knight is an influential and visionary image maker and has produced numerous advertising campaigns for clients including Burberry, Chanel, Fendi, Christian Dior, Lancôme, Swarovski, Tom Ford, Calvin Klein and Yves Saint Laurent. He has longstanding and ongoing creative relationships with various musicians, producing music videos for Björk, Lady Gaga and Kanye West. The Rose Photo Paintings series is an opulent body of work that takes its roots from the work of 16th and 17th century still life painters like Jan Brueghel the Elder and Jan van Huysum. These balanced and seductive, large-scale still lives have an awesome romanticism.
They are hybrids; part photograph, part painting.
As you know these works come in a variety of sizes so we could do a dyptich or a tryptich or a collection on this wall
Rob and Nick Carter
Range from a few thousand to over £50k
Rob and Nick Carter are good friends and a husband and wife artist duo who have been collaborating for over 20 years in London, England.
The Carters' work examines the boundaries between the analogue and the digital using mediums including camera-less photography, painting, installation, neon, sculpture, and time-based media. The artists overarching goal is to harness new technology and reference historical processes that wouldn't have been traditionally possible to previous artists. Rob is a photographer and Nicky is an artist, she has curated the artwork at the Groucho club for a number of years now and I think they have just named a room after her there. They have a fabulous gallery in Lancaster Gate and I would be more than happy to introduce you as they have some fantastic ground breaking work
Maisie Broadhead
Depending on size tend to be £1k - £10k
Maisie's work often explores themes of inherited value through visual references to the historical and the familiar. Her work re-interprets aesthetics from art history genres, drawing links between narratives past and present.
Using historical references, combined with contemporary materials and processes, Maisie creates work that presents a sense of illusion and the uncanny. The subjects of Maisie’s work are often those closest to her; family and friends, who regularly feature in her work and inspire their narratives. He photographs are available in 3 different sizes
https://www.sarahmyerscough.com/search/?search=maisie+broadhead
Wole Lagunji
Pics below range from £10k - £30k
Is an artist that I came across at the Cape Town art fair a couple of years ago and I think is fabulous. He currently has a show at Ebony in CT and he is one to watch
https://www.ebonycurated.com/collections/the-flowers-on-the-crown-of-the-king-wole-lagunju
Annie Morris
Range from £50k upwards
I would absolutely love an annie morris sculpture in my garden
Went to see a fabulous show of her work at the Pitzhanger garden last year. These stack sculptures are shaped from plaster sand and a painted with raw pigment. She is also known for her drawings and textiles and represented by leading galleries in the UK
Her partner is Idris Khan who work is also amazing and he draws from a diverse range of cultural sources including literature, history, art, music and which are incorporated into his work and I think you would really enjoy them. If you want to know more I can share with you
Idris Khan
Range from £50 - 150k
Emily Young
Range from £50 - 150k
Emily has been called Britain’s greatest living stone sculptor. And it has been said that
“Emily Young has inherited the mantle as Britain’s greatest female stone sculptor from Dame Barbara Hepworth’
Telegraph
I have worked with her studio for over 5 years now
She has just won the 2024 Venice Biennale European cultural centre award for sculpture and installation
She also produces works in bronze
Her work is held in many public and private collections around the world
I would be delighted to take you and go and see her showroom in West London Studios if you were interested