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Thursday
Nov132025

Oli-T 'A-Hole #2' Print Available

Artist: Oli-T
Title: A-Hole #2
Medium: Giclee Print
Size: 50 x 50 cm
Edition: 25
Price: £100

 

*so far there appears to be 3 prints in this A-Hole series

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Oli-T (also stylized as OLI-T) is a contemporary urban artist known for his vibrant, color-focused mixed-media pieces that often incorporate creative typography. A very early adopter of the graffiti movement, he began painting walls in Bristol, UK, during the early eighties. His work is a fusion of his roots in street art and his later experience as a graphic designer.
After attending art school for fine art, Oli-T worked for two decades primarily in digital design, creating flyers for clubs and raves. This background in graphic design is evident in the structured, clean aesthetic and use of typography in his current work. Recently, he has returned to painting, utilizing contemporary urban art techniques to explore the relationship between color, light, and text.
Oli-T's art is characterized by a bold palette and dynamic compositions that emphasize "colour, pigment and light". His process combines a graffiti foundation with a graphic sensibility, resulting in pieces that are both energetic and thoughtfully designed. His work has been featured in various art events and is represented by galleries in the UK and internationally.
Monday
Nov032025

Mishfit 'You Can't Take It With You' Print Available

Artist: Mishfit
Title: Growth
Medium: Giclee Print
Size: (A3) 29.7 x 42 cm
Edition: 25
Price: £65

Mishfit is the professional alias of British contemporary urban artist Mish Maudsley, who has spent over two decades merging street energy with refined studio craft. Based in Brighton, she paints luminous dreamscapes that treat drifting clouds as mirrors for human emotion, building towering sky stories in oil, acrylic and neon spray that glow like sunrise caught in mid breath. Her process layers premium pigment over gritty aerosol stains, letting thick impasto collide with transparent glazes so raw creativity remains visible beneath polished finish.
Influences range from Old Master chiaroscuro to Japanese ukiyo-e waves and retro sci-fi cinema, all filtered through a feminist lens that places strong, elegant women at the centre of alternate realities. Figures step out of candy coloured cumulus with poise and defiance, their eyes meeting the viewer as if to say transformation is possible anywhere. Themes of empowerment, escapism and shared humanity run through every canvas, inviting audiences to find common ground inside vivid wonderlands.
Mish began her career bombing walls across Europe and Australia, painting gritty alleys and major festivals from Melbourne to Upfest, before moving into gallery spaces without losing the rebellious spirit of her early paste-ups. Commissions have come from Royal Caribbean, TEDx and UK music festivals, yet she still hand finishes limited giclée prints with 24-carat gold leaf, ensuring each piece carries a personal heartbeat.
Whether exhibiting at Saatchi Art, releasing sunset inspired mini originals or live painting cloud murals on a seaside promenade, Mishfit offers a simple promise: look up, breathe deep and remember that imagination can turn any sky into a sanctuary of possibility.
Monday
Nov032025

Squirl 'Growth' Original Available

Artist: Squirl
Title: Growth
Medium: Framed Acrylic, Aerosol and Oil Pastel on Wood
Size: 62 x 62 cm
Edition: UNIQUE
Price: £300

 

Squirl is the working alias of artist Greg Stobbs, a British illustrator, muralist and street artist based in Canterbury. Born into an illustration dynasty his parents are the celebrated children’s book illustrators Joanna and William Stobbs he grew up surrounded by pens, paper and the smell of gouache, an environment that taught him to treat every surface as a potential story.
Stobbs began his creative life scaling walls and painting under the name Squirl, a nod to his habit of darting around urban sites like the nimble creature itself. His street pieces combine bold, black aerosol outlines with flat, candy-coloured fills, often depicting wide-eyed characters, swirling typography and playful nods to skate culture. Working without stencils, he lets drips and overspray remain, believing these raw marks record the energy of the moment and the sound of the city.
Inside the studio he shifts focus to illustration, creating magical picture-book worlds that bridge fine art and narrative design. Using ink, watercolour and digital layering, he crafts spreads where towering trees wear sneakers and small children ride comets across starlit skies. Recent titles include Don’t Ask the Dragon (Canongate, 2022) and What the Crow Saw Below (Oxford University Press, 2024), both praised for their warm palette and lyrical sense of wonder.
Whether painting a cathedral cloister in York, a post-apocalyptic skate park in Sweden, or a humble book page, Stobbs approaches each surface with the same goal: spark curiosity, spread colour and remind viewers that stories can blossom anywhere imagination takes root.
Friday
Oct102025

Sophi Odling 'Wonder' Print Available

Artist: Sophi Odling
Title: Wonder
Medium: Giclee Print
Size: 42 x 60 cm
Edition: 10
Price: £150

 

Sophi Odling is an Australian muralist and visual artist born in 1983 in Seoul, South Korea, and raised in Sydney, where she still lives and works. After graduating with a BFA from UNSW College of Fine Arts in 2005, she spent fourteen years in the fashion industry before turning to large-scale painting in 2016. Her colourful dreamscapes now span walls across America, Europe, Asia and Australia, translating the people, streets and cultures she encounters into vivid narratives that celebrate diversity and the innocence of youth.
Odling’s process begins with travel and observation; she photographs local textures, palettes and faces, then distills these elements into repeated motifs often children or adolescents rendered in bold, flat acrylic layers. The repetition is intentional: by multiplying a single figure across a facade she invites passers-by to reflect on identity, memory and the idea of home as something both personal and universal. Recent works such as Shift in Tennessee and Something Real in Portsmouth position her own children as models, turning maternal longing into public art that speaks of constant change and the anchor of family.
Whether painting a five-storey portrait in Tullahoma or a coastal welcome wall in Dún Laoghaire, Odling approaches each surface with warmth and openness, aiming to create moments of self-reflection amid urban chaos. Her palette glows with sunset oranges, lagoon blues and gentle skin tones, an embrace she hopes will encourage borderless minds and ongoing dialogue about our shared social and environmental future

 

Tuesday
Apr292025

Audrey Kawasaki 'Right This Way' Print Available

Artist: Audrey Kawasaki
Title: Right This Way
Medium: Giclee Print
Size: 23 x 43 cm
Edition: 50
Price: £150

Monday
Aug192024

Zubieta 'Down The Rabbit Hole' Print Available

Artist: Zubieta
Title: Down The Rabbit Hole
Medium: Giclee Print
Size: 59 x 84 cm
Edition: 50
Price: £95

Monday
Aug192024

Epod 'Fr.edom' Print Available

Artist: Epod
Title: Fr.edom
Medium: Giclee Print
Size: 60 x 42 cm
Edition: UNSURE
Price: £135

Monday
Jul082024

Rob Wass 'Flamingo' Blue, Pink or Orange Prints Available

Artist: Rob Wass
Title: Flamingo BLUE, PINK or ORANGE
Medium: Hand Finished 3 Color Screenprints
Size: 70 x 70 cm each
Edition: 150 each
Price: £250 each

Monday
Jan092023

Tobet 'Totem' Print Available

Artist: Tobet
Title: Totem
Medium: Digital Giclee Print
Size: 50 x 70 cm
Edition: Unsure
Price: £70

Wednesday
Dec212022

Molly Hawkins 'Future Sailors' Print Available

Artist: Molly Hawkins
Title: Future Sailors
Medium: Digital Giclee Print
Size: 42 x 29.7 cm
Edition: Unsure
Price: £65