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Wednesday
Oct082025

Will Martyr 'All I Think About' Print Available' Print Available

Artist: Will Martyr
Title: All I Think About
Medium: Diamond Dusted Spot Varnished 32 Color Screen Print
Size: 62 x 87.5 cm
Edition: 100
Price: £960

 

 Will Martyr, born 1980 in Eastbourne, UK, paints sun drenched daydreams that feel like screen-savers of memory. After the Slade School of Fine Art he spent a formative year at New York’s Studio School, absorbing Abstract Expressionist scale and urban architectural rhythms before returning to London to complete an MA at the Royal College of Art in 2007. Working in fast-drying acrylic, he masks hard edge colour blocks with frog tape, building up to eight translucent layers until swimming pool turquoises and tennis court lilacs glow with LED intensity.

Martyr calls himself a colourist first: every hue is premixed like printing ink, calibrated to trigger instant nostalgia. Early architectural panels have evolved into circular “tondo” canvases that function like portholes or lockets, framing poolside recliners, alpine ski slopes or empty sun lounges arranged like theatre sets. The human figure often his wife appears serene and unposed, a surrogate for the viewer’s own projections of leisure, love and quiet euphoria.
Exhibitions at Maddox Gallery (London & Gstaad), Unit London and Rarity Gallery have sold out rapidly, while corporate commissions fund continual experimentation; a 2006 print edition for Equity Insurance underwrote his mastery of Coriander Studio’s archival techniques. Public recognition includes the BMW Painting Prize nomination and inclusion in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. Currently based in a 1920s propeller factory studio in Deptford, Martyr is preparing new sculptural works and large scale architectural paintings that translate his utopian palettes into three-dimensional space, ensuring the vacation never quite ends.

 

Wednesday
Oct082025

Lino Lago 'Fake Abstract' Print Available

Artist: Lino Lago
Title: Fake Abstract
Medium: Deckled Varnished Giclee Print
Size: 27 x 23 Inches
Edition: 45
Price: £595

 

Lino Lago (b. 1973, Redondela, Spain) is a Madrid-trained painter who stages elegant collisions between Old-Master finesse and digital-age minimalism. After graduating from the Universidad Complutense, he became fascinated by reports of painting’s “death,” responding with the long-running Fake Abstract series: meticulous oil reproductions of Renaissance and Bourbon portraits that he half-obscures with flat monochrome or gold-leaf swipes, leaving only a sliver of face or lace visible beneath a seemingly Photoshop generated mask. The device questions authenticity, value, and how screens mediate our contact with history. Technical rigor underpins the joke each passage of flesh is modeled with 18th century glazing, while the overlay is sanded to vinyl like smoothness, so brushstroke and pixel coexist on one skin.
Lago’s work has entered public collections including Harvard Business School and the Flint Institute of Arts, and has been shown at ARCO Madrid, Pulse Miami, and in solo exhibitions from New York to Copenhagen. Awards such as the BMW Painting Prize from the Queen of Spain and the Vilnius City Arts Award confirm institutional respect for his conceptual sleight of hand. Recent shows like Multipolar (2025) expand the lexicon, pitting Caravaggio against color field slabs to evoke a fragmented, many-centered cultural world. Living between Madrid and Vilnius, Lago continues to probe how much of the past we actually need to see before we admit the present has already re-written it.

 

Wednesday
Oct082025

Riikka Sormunen 'Holiday, 2025' Print Release Details

Artist: Riikka Sormunen
Title: Holiday, 2025
Medium: Deckled Varnished Giclee Print
Size: 20 x 20 Inches
Edition: 20
Price: £450

*available Thursday October 9th, 2025

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Riikka Sormunen (b. 1987, Helsinki) turns daydreams into jewel toned oil paintings where fashion-editorial poise meets surrealist unease. After a semester of fashion design she pivoted to illustration, building a clientele that ranged from Finnish magazines to Japanese apparel before committing solely to canvas in 2016. Working on unprimed linen, she applies thin, lucent layers of oil so crimsons and viridians bleed like textile dye, then tightens select zones lace cuffs, serpent scales, cat pupils to photographic clarity. The resulting images feel simultaneously vintage and hyper-contemporary: Klimt-like pattern fields float around blank-faced women who grip wilted bouquets or let goldfish dangle from their sleeves, every object posed as if for an unseen camera.
Influences converge in her studio: early Lucian Freud for fleshy tension, Ukiyo-e prints for flattened perspective, and Nordic folklore for latent darkness. Solo exhibitions at Allouche Gallery (LA) and Rhodes Contemporary (London) sold out rapidly, while group stints at Dallas Contemporary and the “Nordic Delights” tour confirmed international appetite. Recent pieces such as Ghost Friend and Cat’s Eye push scale toward life-size, intensifying the tension between decorative beauty and psychological vacancy. Sormunen photographs her own floral still-lifes as source material, then digitally distorts petals into acidic hues no garden could grow, reinforcing the calculated artificiality she calls “soft sensuality under surveillance.” Living back in Helsinki after residencies in Tokyo and Lisbon, she continues to probe how femininity, nature, and consumer imagery can be arranged then eerily silenced inside a single gilded frame.

 

Friday
Aug292025

Brooklyn Whelan 'Purple Haze' XL Print Available

Artist: Brooklyn Whelan
Title: Purple Haze
Medium: Varnished Giclee Print
Size: 110 x 110 cm
Edition: 30
Prices: £1,045

Wednesday
Nov202024

Takashi Murakami 'Longing For Zao Wou-Ki's Flower Painting' Print Release Details

Artist: Takashi Murakami
Title: Longing For Zao Wou-Ki's Flower Painting
Medium: Varnished 4 Color Offset Print + Special Silver
Size: 54.4 x 65 cm
Edition: 300
Price: $500

*available at 10pm EST on Wednesday November 20th, 2024

Thursday
Nov072024

Takashi Murakami 'Bouquet In Basket' Print Release Details

Artist: Takashi Murakami
Title: Bouquet In Basket
Medium: 4 Color Offset Print
Size: 60.5 x 60 cm
Edition: 300
Price: $500

*available at 10pm EST on Thursday November 7th, 2024

Thursday
Nov072024

Takashi Murakami 'Rinpa Flowers Abstract Imagery' Print Release Details

Artist: Takashi Murakami
Title: Rinpa Flowers Abstract Imagery
Medium: 4 Color Offset Tondo Print
Size: Ø 71 cm
Edition: 300
Price: $575

*available at 10pm EST on Thursday November 7th, 2024

Tuesday
Nov052024

David Shrigley 'Thank You For Keeping Still' Print Available

Artist: David Shrigley
Title: Thank You For Keeping Still
Medium: Varnished 14 Color Screen Print
Size: 56 x 76 cm
Edition: 125
Price: €2,000

Thursday
Sep192024

SNIK 'For A Moment' HPMs Release Details

Artist: SNIK
Title: For A Moment (Magenta, Golden Yellow, Cobalt Blue or Forest Green)
Medium: Hand Embellished Varnished Screen Prints
Size: 73 x 109 cm each
Edition: MA:23•GY:24•CB:24•FG:22
Price: £325 each

*available at 12pm EST on Thursday September 26th

Wednesday
Jun122024

SNIK 'Morning Lights' HPMs Release Details

Artist: SNIK
Title: Morning Lights (Blue/Pink/Orange)
Medium: Hand Embellished 9 Layer Stencil
Size: 65 x 65 cm
Edition: 10/5/5
Price: £1,750 each

*available at 12pm EST Tuesday June 18th