Timothy Gatenby 'Lovin It' Print Available

Artist: Timothy Gatenby
Title: Lovin It
Medium: Acrylic on Takeaway Bag
Size: 30 x 18 x 10 cm
Edition: UNIQUE
Price: £150

*drink cup for scale only, not included :)

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Timothy Gatenby is a contemporary British figurative artist known for his oil paintings that bridge the gap between classical techniques and modern pop culture imagery. Born in 1987 (or 1989), Gatenby developed an interest in art and film early on, eventually studying traditional portraiture in Florence, Italy, after a film degree in the UK. This classical education in the city of the Renaissance heavily influences his technical approach, which he then subverts with a distinctly modern and often humorous subject matter. Gatenby is known for incorporating beloved cartoon characters and other nostalgic imagery from 90s television into his work, rendering them in a style more associated with fine art than light entertainment. These familiar figures are often stripped of their usual bright colors and given a muted, somewhat ghostly appearance, which, along with his signature blurred compositions, evokes a sense of fading memories or the passing of time. The artist attributes the blurred effect in part to his own short-sightedness and childhood refusal to wear glasses.

His work is a commentary on contemporary issues such as consumerism and overindulgence, often featuring themes like fast food as a vehicle to discuss the 'easiness of modern life'. Despite the underlying dark humor and social critique, Gatenby aims for amusement to be a primary reaction from viewers, wanting people to smile and have fun when looking at his work. He starts many of his pieces by sketching ideas on an iPad, merging the digital age with the analog world of painting, before applying oil paint and using large brushes to achieve the soft, blurred focus. Gatenby's work has been exhibited widely, including at the National Portrait Gallery and the Royal Academy of Arts, and he was a finalist for the BP Portrait Award in 2012. His art is represented by galleries in major cities like New York and Seoul, and continues to explore the dialogue between revered art from antiquity and mass-produced objects from modern life.

Timothy Gatenby 'The Lord Of Kirby' Original Available

Artist: Timothy Gatenby
Title: The Lord Of Kirby
Medium: Airbrush on Paper
Size: 14 x 14 Inches
Edition: UNIQUE
Price: £250

Timothy Gatenby is a London-based figurative painter who fuses Renaissance glazing with pop-culture satire to probe modern idolatry. Born in 1986, he first studied film at Queen Mary University, analysing Herzog and Tarkovsky, then spent five years at Florence’s Charles Cecil Studios mastering the sight-size method, an optical technique that trains the eye to translate minute shifts of light into form. This rigorous grounding surfaces in his canvases: portraits and still-lifes built from dozens of translucent oil and air-brushed layers that glow like sixteenth-century panels seen through neon glass.

Gatenby selects universally recognisable subjects Michelangelo’s David, Warhol’s Coke bottle, Disney princesses, and various pop culture characters then renders them in soft, almost out-of-focus focus, as if recalled from a half-remembered dream. The blur evokes digital fatigue and the erosion of collective memory, asking whether a streaming childhood icon carries the same mnemonic weight as a five-hundred-year-old sculpture. Fast-food wrappers, Evian bottles and cartoon heroes are elevated onto velvet-dark pedestals, equating classical marble with mass-produced plastic to critique consumerist fetish. Despite the conceptual heft, the paintings pulse with dry British humour: a cherub clutches a vape pen, Belle and the Beast binge Netflix, cherubs selfie-stick their way into heaven.

Recent solo show And All Shall Be Memorialised at Blond Contemporary (2025) pairs antiquity and advertising as co-equal cultural totems, underscoring Gatenby’s belief that nostalgia now attaches as fiercely to soda logos as to Laocoön. Finalist in the 2012 BP Portrait Prize, he continues to dissect how images become relics, producing hyper-real relics for an age when icons are streamed, scrolled and instantly replaced.

Timothy Gatenby 'Polaroid' Originals Available

Artist: Timothy Gatenby
Title: Polaroids
Medium: Airbrush on Original Polaroids
Size: 3.5 x 4.2 Inches
Edition: UNIQUE
Price: £65 each

Timothy Gatenby 'Snoopy Above The Sea Of Fog' Original Available

Artist: Timothy Gatenby
Title: Snoppy Above The Sea Of Fog
Medium: Oil + Acrylic on Paper
Size: 11 x 15 Inches
Edition: UNIQUE
Price: £260

Timothy Gatenby 'Album Series' Available

David Bowie Alladin Sane

Artist: Timothy Gatenby
Title: Album Series
Medium: Aerosol on Paper
Size: 38 x 38 cm each
Edition: 1/1 each
Price: £360 each

Oasis Definitely Maybe

Blink-182 Enema Of The State

Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

NWA Straight Outta Compton

Bob Dylan The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Timothy Gatenby 'Cola' Print Available

Artist: Timothy Gatenby
Title: Cola
Medium: Aerosol on Paper
Size: 21 x 29.7 cm
Edition: UNSURE
Price: £125

Timothy Gatenby 'Doh Eyed' Print Available

Artist: Timothy Gatenby
Title: Doh-Eyed
Medium: Hand Finished Giclee With 2 Color Screenprinting
Size: 60 x 60 cm
Edition: 20
Price: £135

*slick framed version with custom spacers for £380