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Alanna Eakin

Alanna Eakin’s work has tickled our fancy this week. Working from her South London studio, Alanna creates vibrant paintings that take on two forms: one expressive and abstract, the other figurative and controlled. 

Driven by a love of vibrant and saturated colour, Alanna’s latest body of abstract work is enchanting and uplifting. Alanna works quickly, layering mixed media on canvas and paper to establish a base colour palette. From there she adds detail in an experimental and spontaneous way, inviting us to find something new in every stroke. 

Don’t miss the chance to see Alanna’s work in the paint!

She will be exhibiting at the Talented Art Fair on 1-3 March and also at Roy's People Art Fair on 4-7 April.

On 9-12 May, Alanna will present a selection of her works at Wimbledon Studios.

Alanna's work is represented by Artrepublic, NYA Gallery and Jealous.

Louise Boulter

This week we’re bringing you the brilliant and quirky world of Louise Boulter. In her current series ‘Observations of Character’ Louise forces us to explore the individual’s sense of isolation through clever cropping and abstraction of the figure.

Louise’s work magnifies the disconnect between sitter and the ‘outside’ world: a feeling of discord with one’s surroundings and oneself. 

Louise is currently exhibiting three works at Mccully & Crane Art Gallery, Rye.  Mccully & Crane blurs the lines between the old and new, celebrating the work of contemporary artists alongside mid-century European paintings.

Louise Boulter is a London-based painter and a recent Art and Design (BA Hons) graduate from Kingston University. 

In 2018 Louise exhibited with the curatorial project Warbling Collective.

Ioana Baltan

Ioana’s paintings explore the human condition through physiognomy in an attempt to expose deeper emotional energies. Instinctive and decisive brushstrokes define her paintings, coupled with subdued tones that emphasise the darker side of the figures.  “My painting is a form of understanding the world, and is influenced both by my perceptions of people, and by music.”

Ioana has exhibited worldwide, including in London, Romania and Italy. She is represented by GO Contemporary Gallery, which focuses on promoting Romanian and other international emerging artists. In 2019 Ioana’s work will be featured in several magazines including A5 Magazine, Average Art and Wotisart.

Claudia Legge

Claudia Legge has been a key player in the underwater photography world ever since she graduated. With her photos she creates ethereal and dreamy images inspired by a fascination with light, water, colour and nudity.  The viewer is constantly confronted by the colour that every day hits the eye in each surrounding.

Her work has been selected for the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2018. The exhibition takes place at the National Portrait Gallery until the 27 of this month.

Claudia is a member of World Wide Women Collective, a creative group of female photographers and artists from around the world representing women in the world of art today.

Alexander Heaton

Alexander Heaton's art reaches deep into the imagination. Combining a love of painting, printmaking and mountaineering, Alexander uses mixed media to explore man's primeval interaction with nature.

"My work teeters on the edge of a cinematographic realism and also at times uses sampled vignettes of other painter's work."

Alexander's artistic journey continues to draw on the Romantic tradition, adapting it for a twenty first century audience.

In 2018, Alexander took part in a two-man exhibition at A-side B-side Gallery in collaboration with artist Mark Metcalfe.

Alexander will be taking part in a show with Andrew Macgregor later on in 2019. Stay tuned for more information.

A notable achievement was Alexander’s solo show The Secret of the Runes at London’s Residence Gallery in 2011 which was selected to be included in the Pulse Art Fair, Miami to much critical acclaim.

Delphine Lebourgeois

Delphine works in a variety of mediums - including digital, collage, ink, watercolour and screenprint - while maintaining drawing at the core of her practice.  Her work takes inspiration from different stylistic sources, ranging from Botticelli to comic books, and combines symbols and cultural references in a playful and often irreverent way. Delphine completed a Masters in Illustration at Central St Martins in 2005 after studying Fine Art at Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Lyon.

Delphine’s work is being shown at Pop Art Femmes, an exhibition curated by Gina Cross in collaboration with Artsy, until 21 December. The exhibition showcases work by 10 contemporary artists that represent some of the more joyful aspects of being a woman in the 21st century.

Thank you to everyone who participated in our first Open Call! We were thrilled to receive so many high calibre submissions and we want to thank everyone for their time.

After much deliberation, we were able to shortlist four artists: Tere Chad, Rhiannon Salisbury, Alexander Heaton and Delphine Lebourgeois.

The two final winner of this first edition of the Tagsmart Open Call are Rhiannon Rebecca Salisbury and Tere Chad.

Both artists will receive full Tagsmart certification of their selected work as well as features across all our social media channels and newsletter.

Alice Gur-Aire is an award-nominated artist whose work has been auctioned at Christie’s, exhibited at the Iceland Embassy of London and held in collections all around the world including the UK, the USA, Israel, Germany and Canada.

Inspired by the natural world, landscapes, seascapes, wildlife and images of nature dominate her portfolio. Ranging in style from bold saturated abstracts to soft, textured tones, her work reflects an unending on new ways of seeing.

Describing herself as an interpreter who “wants to engage both head and heart”, she takes photographs around the  world and re-paints them digitally by hand into contemporary fine art images.

Discover more of her work on her instagram.

Alice is represented by Curious Duke Gallery in London, and The Apple Gallery in Bath.