Lee Price I

 I am drawn to the aerial perspective, intimacy and realism of these works by Lee Price.

"My paintings are self-portraits. In most of my paintings, what I want to get across is a sense of distraction. How we grasp for things that distract us from being present when the present is too uncomfortable for us to sit with. How this "checking out" (or compulsion) often creates more harm than if we had just sat with the discomfort in the first place. I think the best ones show not only the negative aspects of this behaviour but also the comfort that's found in doing it... and the absurdity of it." Lee Price 

Johanna Harmon

"Faces fascinate me.  I am especially drawn to the qualities that make an individual unique--the kind of beauty that you cannot invent." Johanna Harmon
What I think makes these paintings of Johanna's magical is her portrayal of textiles, lovely gauzy layers, satin sheens and beautiful colours. They are almost classical in that rendering of glamorous fabrics and yet they are  also so modern.

Hope Gangloff

Hope Gangloff  produces very contemporary portraits and compositions with figures particularly in her portrayal of men. 
Hope mainly uses her friends as models I love the clash and bang of her fabrics and patterns, that cacophony of pattern that surrounds her pale models.

Stephane Dauthuille II

I love the colours textures and patterns of Stephane Dauthuille's work but also his headless compositions. 
I have produced figure paintings in the past that lacked their heads and I find them less challenging as a viewer than the affront of a painted face who often looks at you as though you shouldn't be looking.

Anna Gillespie

Anna Gillespie forms people from leaf litter and acorn cups a strange alchemy that creates wonderful haunting pieces of art.

Gennadii Gogoliuk

Gennadii Gogoliuk is a Russian artist who has been living in Edinburgh for nearly twenty years, his classical figurative paintings are sensitive and sumptuous.

Brigitte McReynolds I

German artist, settled in California, Brigitte McReynolds produces these wonderful figurative works, expressive and using wonderful colour's, her works are very powerful.