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Friday
Oct312025

Martin Whatson 'Make Peace' Print Application Open

Artist: Martin Whatson
Title: Make Peace
Medium: 25 Color Screen Print
Size: 70 x 70 cm
Edition: 250
Price: £495

*there is also a black, hand embellished, acrylic and brass variant available

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Martin Whatson is a Norwegian painter, printmaker and muralist born in Oslo in 1984 who has forged a signature dialogue between order and chaos. While studying graphic design at Westerdals School of Communication he discovered stencil art through the early 2000s wave of European street art, but unlike many peers he refused to abandon his graffiti roots. His breakthrough aesthetic pairs meticulous monochrome stencils of figures, cityscapes or endangered animals with explosive streaks of neon tags, drips and calligraphic flourishes that he paints freehand straight over the crisp imagery. The result feels like a frozen tug-of-war: the clean up crew versus the writer, the gallery versus the wall, captured in one glossy moment.
Working without projections, Whatson cuts intricate multi-layer stencils by hand, sprays them in desaturated greys, then attacks the surface with buckets of candy pink, cyan and yellow, letting paint run, drip and overlap until the original image peers through a storm of colour. Murals in Wynwood, Stavanger, Shoreditch and lower Manhattan carry this conversation to public space, while studio canvases and editioned prints on aluminium bring the same energy indoors. Recent series insert children pulling back curtains to reveal tagged walls or power wash workers mid spray, turning the eternal cat-and-mouse of street art into gentle visual theatre.
Exhibitions at Harman Projects New York, Vertical Gallery Chicago and Nuart Festival have sold out rapidly, and his 2023 publication InsideOutsider traces the evolution from teenage subway tagger to internationally collected fine artist. Whether painting a ten storey endangered sea turtle in Miami or a handfinished screen print in his Oslo studio, Whatson keeps the process quick and instinctive, a nod to the cold, dark Nordic nights that taught him to work fast and bold.
Thursday
Oct302025

Vinnie Hager 'Impromptu' Prints Available

Artist: Vinnie Hager
Title: Impromptu
Medium: Hand Embellished 1 Color Screen Print
Size: 18 x 24 Inches
Edition: 30 (UNIQUE)
Price: $75

 

Vinnie Hager is a Baltimore-born multidisciplinary artist who has turned compulsive doodling into a market-moving visual language. Raised in Millersville, Maryland, he spent solitary childhood afternoons filling notebooks with symbols eyes, envelopes, stars, question marks that still populate his work today. Encouraged by early $25 sales at school, he refined the alphabet while studying at Anne Arundel Community College and later at MICA, where animation and illustration courses fed his fascination with pattern.
Working without preliminary sketches, Hager lays down looping chains of glyphs in Posca pens, Procreate or paint pens, letting each shape dictate the next until dense mandala-like fields emerge. The method is meditative yet urgent; a single canvas or vintage Champion hoodie can be completed in one hypnotic four-hour session. Colour palettes shift between soft pastels and high-visibility neons, but the line remains consistently clean, recalling both hieroglyphics and circuit boards.
During the pandemic he pioneered Instagram “scavenger drops,” leaving free art around Baltimore, then watching followers sprint to claim them an act that converted online buzz into real-world community. The same energy fuels limited capsule releases: thrifted furniture, cut-and-sewn blankets, ski masks and Nike AF1s slathered with his code sell out in minutes, echoing early Supreme hype without the corporate machine.
Hager’s recent Diary NFT project translates seven years of grief into 1,000 unique digital squares, each paired with a physical print, merging Web3 innovation with tangible craft. Whether painting a six-storey Harbour East mural or grip-tape for local skaters, he treats every surface as a page in an ever-expanding sketchbook, proving that sincerity, speed and a sharp eye can transform simple marks into cultural currency.
Tuesday
Oct282025

Guy Denning 'Hope' Print Release Details

Artist: Guy Denning
Title: Hope
Medium: Hand Embellished 1 Color Screen Print
Size: 24 x 35 cm
Edition: 200
Price: €80

*available at 11am EST on Thursday October 30th, 2025

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Guy Denning is a British painter who channels raw human emotion onto weathered surfaces, creating urgent portraits that feel like pages torn from a private journal. Born in North Somerset in 1965, he is self taught, developing his craft through obsessive study of Rembrandt, Goya, and Bacon while working daylight jobs as a carpenter and illustrator. He gained underground notice in the early 2000s by plastering Bristol streets with stark mixed media faces, each sheet scorched, torn, and stained to suggest lives battered by politics, love, and time. Denning now lives in rural Finistère, Brittany, where the Atlantic wind seems to blow through his studio. Using reclaimed wood, tar, ash, bitumen, oil stick, and aerosol, he builds dense surfaces that hover between drawing and sculpture. Figures emerge from this debris: eyes burn with protest, mouths open in silent howls, hands clutch books or weapons.Color arrives in bruised reds or sulphur flashes, yet the dominant tone is charcoal black, evoking both cave painting and newspaper print.

The artist cites the Arab Spring, refugee crises, and local fishermen’s strikes as catalysts, but insists the work is not reportage; it is an attempt to mirror shared vulnerability. Solo exhibitions in Rome, New York, and London regularly sell out, while public murals in Naples and Los Angeles transform crumbling walls into pleas for empathy. Denning also posts daily sketches online, offering them freely for non commercial use, believing art must circulate like breath. Whether rendering a single protester or a writhing crowd, he seeks the moment when private grief becomes common language, reminding viewers that history is written first on the human face.

Monday
Oct272025

Alexis "Bust" Stephens 'Felides Couple' HPM Available

Artist: Alexis "Bust" Stephens
Title: Felides Couple
Medium: Hand Embellished Screen Print
Size: 45 x 30 cm
Edition: 45
Price: €170

Alexis Bust Stephens, alias Bust the Drip, is a Paris born painter who turns motion into pigment. His mother is French, his father Jamaican, and from childhood he felt music as vibration in his bones. Hip hop dance came first; he competed across Europe, spinning on cardboard, feeling the beat as waves that traveled from floor to heart. When he picked up a brush he kept that rhythm, translating leaps and freezes into streaks of spray, acrylic, and graphite. He sees the body as an organized storm of waves, each gesture a note in an unseen score.

On canvas he choreographs lines that twist, stretch, and break, letting color drip like sweat after a six step. The process is both technical and instinctive: he layers, scrapes, revises, until figures emerge mid movement, caught between blur and focus. Abstract expressionism gives him freedom, graffiti gives him speed, and dance gives him pulse. Recent years have brought major recognition: a mural for Barack Obama’s Brilliant Minds gathering in Stockholm, inclusion in the Olympic Museum in Lausanne celebrating hip hop’s entry into the games, and sold out shows in Paris, Düsseldorf, and beyond. Yet he still slips out at night to paste paper or set tiles on suburban walls, sharing positive frequencies with commuters who rarely enter galleries. Whether on a huge public façade or an intimate sheet of paper, every piece is a reminder that we are all sums of organized waves, pulsating, leaning, reaching for the next beat.

Monday
Oct272025

PreFab77 'Heist Saeki' Print Release Details

Artist: PreFab77
Title: Heist Saeki
Medium: Handpainted Multiple on Paper
Size: 56 x 76 cm Each
Edition: 10 UNIQUE
Price: £395 Each

 

*available at 1pm EST on Thursday October 30th, 2025

Prefab77 is the alias of Peter Manning, a British artist who fuses military precision with street energy. Born in the north of England and trained as a printmaker for the British Army, he learned discipline and technique that still shape his fast, hard edged style. A move to New York in the 1990s placed him on Elizabeth Street, where torn posters, luxury boutiques and fresh graffiti collided outside his door. That visual mix became his palette. Returning to Newcastle, he began creating large allegorical portraits that weave money, music, politics and fashion into glowing mosaics of paint, spray, wheatpaste and varnish.

His female faces stare out like modern saints, framed by gilded dollars, roses and fractured headlines. The work is glamorous yet confrontational, celebrating consumer icons while questioning who owns the streets. Commissions followed from Nike, Converse and the New York Dolls, yet Manning still climbs walls at dawn, armed with tiles and adhesive, turning blank brick into shimmering commentaries on power and desire. Each piece is cut, painted and placed by hand, building a luxurious surface that feels both devotional and subversive. Recent murals in North Shields tackle Brexit and local pride, proving his gaze remains fixed on the tension between heritage and change. For Prefab77, every wall is a chance to craft a modern fable, beautiful enough to stop traffic and sharp enough to leave a lasting impression on the passerby who dares to look closer.

Friday
Oct242025

Andrew Scott 'Tug' Series Available

Artist: Andrew Scott
Title: Tug Series
Medium: Framed Giclee Print on Canvas
Size: 33 x 44.5 cm
Edition: TIMED
Price: £300

*Cooper is my favorite of the bunch

Wednesday
Oct222025

David Newton 'Happy Place' (Bubble Gum) Print Available

Artist: David Newton
Title: Happy Place (Bubble Gum)
Medium: Gold Leaf Embellished Screen Print
Size: 50 x 70 cm
Edition: 200
Price: £200

 

David Newton is a UK artist who creates highly coloured acrylic paintings, screenprints and picture book imagery that celebrate the collision of words, shapes and clashing colour. Born in the Midlands and now based in London, he studied Graphic Design at Birmingham Institute of Art and Design before completing an MA in Children’s Book Illustration at Cambridge School of Art, training that taught him to build narratives through bold, economical form.
Newton describes himself as an image maker who works entirely by hand. He cuts, scribbles and collages real pens, pencils and found paper, then exposes these hand-built layers directly onto silk-screens, embracing every mis-registration, splodge and colour bleed as part of the finished artwork. The process yields limited-edition prints and paintings where Art Nouveau curves meet mid-century poster geometry, all saturated in vivid oranges, purples and acid greens that he insists must clash to feel alive.
When he is not printing at Print Club London he can be found sketching in city parks and zoos, collecting visual fragments that feed picture books, festival posters and commercial commissions for clients including Pelican Books and The London Illustration Fair. By championing analogue craft in a digital age, David Newton invites viewers to celebrate the happy accident and to see storytelling in every imperfect layer of ink.
Tuesday
Oct212025

Katia Lifshin 'Space Bloom' Print Available

Artist: Katia Lifshin
Title: Space Bloom
Medium: Hand Embellished Giclee Print
Size: 21 x 21 Inches
Edition: 10
Price: $950

 

Katia Lifshin is an Israeli artist born in Ukraine in 1993 who paints introspective worlds where women merge with moonlit nature. Using mainly oil, graphite and cyanotype, she layers translucent blues and greens until skin, bark and water seem made of the same living substance. Figures climb, float or curl inside hollow trees, their closed eyes suggesting dreams more real than waking life. Recurring motifs such as bioluminescent light, spiral trunks and drifting hair act as emotional markers, turning each canvas into a diary of solitude and resilience.

After immigrating to Israel at age four and studying art in Tucson, Arizona, Lifshin returned to Tel Aviv, where she now works in a small studio filled with potted plants and night sounds. Recent solo exhibitions include Lunar Pathways at Kandlhofer Gallery in Vienna and Parallels at Moosey Gallery in London, while group shows have taken her dreamscapes to Taipei, Como and Paris. Press features in Artmaze, The Jerusalem Post and Booooooom underline her rising international voice. Whether rendering a single figure cupping foxfire or entire forests breathing with hidden faces, Lifshin invites viewers to step beyond the visible and to feel the quiet pulse where identity and landscape become one.

Monday
Oct202025

Ai Weiwei 'Forever Bicycle' (Blue + Silver) Print Release Details

Artist: Ai Weiwei
Title: Forever Bicycle (Blue + Silver)
Medium: Gold Leaf Embellished 3 Color Screen Print
Size: 75 x 75 cm
Edition: 100
Prices: €2,420

*application open until Monday November 17th, 2025

Monday
Oct202025

Ai Weiwei 'Forever Bicycle' (Red + Gold) Print Release Details

Artist: Ai Weiwei
Title: Forever Bicycle (Red + Gold)
Medium: Gold Leaf Embellished 3 Color Screen Print
Size: 75 x 75 cm
Edition: 100
Prices: €2,420

*application open until Monday November 17th, 2025

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Ai Weiwei is a Chinese artist, architect and activist born in Beijing in 1957 who uses sculpture, photography, film and social media to challenge authority and champion human rights. The son of poet Ai Qing, he grew up during the Cultural Revolution and later studied at Parsons School of Design in New York, where exposure to conceptual art shaped his belief that ideas carry more weight than objects. His best known works transform traditional materials into pointed political statements: Sunflower Seeds consists of one hundred million porcelain seeds hand painted by artisans in Jingdezhen, inviting viewers to consider mass labour and individuality, while Straight comprises ninety tons of rebar recovered from schools destroyed in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, the bent metal painstakingly straightened to memorialise young lives lost to corruption.
Architecture is another arena of critique. He helped design Beijing National Stadium for the 2008 Olympics, yet later distanced himself from the project, calling the games a propaganda show. His subsequent installations often expose state surveillance: surveillance cameras cast in marble or bronze sit like silent idols, questioning who watches whom in modern society.
Detention in 2011 for eighty one days without charge intensified his global profile. Since regaining his passport he has lived in Portugal and Britain, continuing to produce work that links personal experience to universal themes of freedom and exile. Whether building a fence across New York landmarks or wrapping refugees in thermal blankets on Berlin concert hall steps, he insists that art must engage with the world beyond the gallery. By merging ancient craft with contemporary dissent, he proves creativity can be a powerful form of resistance.