ADORN THE FUTURE @ FUTURE ICONS SELECTS 2026

Acrylic on Constructed Wood Panel

Size: 65cm x 40cm

Vincent Spain is a contemporary painter whose work explores the intuitive relationship between observation, memory, and subconscious narrative. Working primarily with acrylic, charcoal, and pastel, Spain approaches painting as an evolving process of accumulation and response, where imagery gathered over months or years gradually surfaces through gesture and mark-making. His compositions emerge through a deeply instinctive dialogue between looking and painting, allowing each mark to inform the next until the work arrives at its own internal resolution.

Drawing inspiration from fleeting encounters, observed moments, and the emotional resonance of light, Spain transforms everyday experience into psychologically charged and atmospheric works. While informed by the visual language of mid-20th-century painting, his practice remains distinctly contemporary, balancing painterly immediacy with a quiet sense of introspection. The resulting works occupy a space between figuration and abstraction, where narrative remains intentionally open, inviting viewers into contemplative and deeply human visual worlds.

Charcoal & Gesso on Board (Comes Framed)

Size: 36cm x 47cm

Vincent Spain is a contemporary painter whose work explores the intuitive relationship between observation, memory, and subconscious narrative. Working primarily with acrylic, charcoal, and pastel, Spain approaches painting as an evolving process of accumulation and response, where imagery gathered over months or years gradually surfaces through gesture and mark-making. His compositions emerge through a deeply instinctive dialogue between looking and painting, allowing each mark to inform the next until the work arrives at its own internal resolution.

Drawing inspiration from fleeting encounters, observed moments, and the emotional resonance of light, Spain transforms everyday experience into psychologically charged and atmospheric works. While informed by the visual language of mid-20th-century painting, his practice remains distinctly contemporary, balancing painterly immediacy with a quiet sense of introspection. The resulting works occupy a space between figuration and abstraction, where narrative remains intentionally open, inviting viewers into contemplative and deeply human visual worlds.

Charcoal & Gesso (Comes Framed)

Size: 36cm x 47cm

Vincent Spain is a contemporary painter whose work explores the intuitive relationship between observation, memory, and subconscious narrative. Working primarily with acrylic, charcoal, and pastel, Spain approaches painting as an evolving process of accumulation and response, where imagery gathered over months or years gradually surfaces through gesture and mark-making. His compositions emerge through a deeply instinctive dialogue between looking and painting, allowing each mark to inform the next until the work arrives at its own internal resolution.

Drawing inspiration from fleeting encounters, observed moments, and the emotional resonance of light, Spain transforms everyday experience into psychologically charged and atmospheric works. While informed by the visual language of mid-20th-century painting, his practice remains distinctly contemporary, balancing painterly immediacy with a quiet sense of introspection. The resulting works occupy a space between figuration and abstraction, where narrative remains intentionally open, inviting viewers into contemplative and deeply human visual worlds.

Acrylic on Wood Panel (Comes Framed)

Size: 54cm x 64cm

Vincent Spain is a contemporary painter whose work explores the intuitive relationship between observation, memory, and subconscious narrative. Working primarily with acrylic, charcoal, and pastel, Spain approaches painting as an evolving process of accumulation and response, where imagery gathered over months or years gradually surfaces through gesture and mark-making. His compositions emerge through a deeply instinctive dialogue between looking and painting, allowing each mark to inform the next until the work arrives at its own internal resolution.

Drawing inspiration from fleeting encounters, observed moments, and the emotional resonance of light, Spain transforms everyday experience into psychologically charged and atmospheric works. While informed by the visual language of mid-20th-century painting, his practice remains distinctly contemporary, balancing painterly immediacy with a quiet sense of introspection. The resulting works occupy a space between figuration and abstraction, where narrative remains intentionally open, inviting viewers into contemplative and deeply human visual worlds.

Acrylic on Wooden Panel (Comes Framed)

Size: 34cm x 34cm

Vincent Spain is a contemporary painter whose work explores the intuitive relationship between observation, memory, and subconscious narrative. Working primarily with acrylic, charcoal, and pastel, Spain approaches painting as an evolving process of accumulation and response, where imagery gathered over months or years gradually surfaces through gesture and mark-making. His compositions emerge through a deeply instinctive dialogue between looking and painting, allowing each mark to inform the next until the work arrives at its own internal resolution.

Drawing inspiration from fleeting encounters, observed moments, and the emotional resonance of light, Spain transforms everyday experience into psychologically charged and atmospheric works. While informed by the visual language of mid-20th-century painting, his practice remains distinctly contemporary, balancing painterly immediacy with a quiet sense of introspection. The resulting works occupy a space between figuration and abstraction, where narrative remains intentionally open, inviting viewers into contemplative and deeply human visual worlds.

Acrylic on Wooden Panel (Comes Framed)

Size: 34cm x 34cm

Vincent Spain is a contemporary painter whose work explores the intuitive relationship between observation, memory, and subconscious narrative. Working primarily with acrylic, charcoal, and pastel, Spain approaches painting as an evolving process of accumulation and response, where imagery gathered over months or years gradually surfaces through gesture and mark-making. His compositions emerge through a deeply instinctive dialogue between looking and painting, allowing each mark to inform the next until the work arrives at its own internal resolution.

Drawing inspiration from fleeting encounters, observed moments, and the emotional resonance of light, Spain transforms everyday experience into psychologically charged and atmospheric works. While informed by the visual language of mid-20th-century painting, his practice remains distinctly contemporary, balancing painterly immediacy with a quiet sense of introspection. The resulting works occupy a space between figuration and abstraction, where narrative remains intentionally open, inviting viewers into contemplative and deeply human visual worlds.

Layered Dyed Resin on Mirror Polished Stainless Steel

Size: 42cm x 60cm

Kohlben Vodden is a contemporary artist working between London and Dubai, recognised for his wall-mounted spectral sculptures that investigate the relationship between colour, light, and perception. Exhibited internationally at institutions including the Saatchi Gallery, Christie's, and the Victoria and Albert Museum, Vodden’s practice explores how abstract ideas might be experienced purely through colour and optical sensation. Themes such as resilience, acceptance, and self-mastery are translated into immersive chromatic fields where meaning emerges through perception rather than representation.

Each sculpture is produced through a proprietary multi-layered process using dyed resin and mirrored surfaces to create shifting optical effects through depth, transparency, and reflected light. Responsive to movement and environment, the works continually transform in relation to the viewer, positioning light itself as an active material within the composition. Balancing conceptual rigour with sensory experience, Vodden’s practice reflects an ongoing investigation into abstraction, perception, and the emotional potential of colour as a spatial and psychological force.

Layered Dyed Resin on Mirror Polished Stainless Steel

Size: 42cm x 60cm

Kohlben Vodden is a contemporary artist working between London and Dubai, recognised for his wall-mounted spectral sculptures that investigate the relationship between colour, light, and perception. Exhibited internationally at institutions including the Saatchi Gallery, Christie's, and the Victoria and Albert Museum, Vodden’s practice explores how abstract ideas might be experienced purely through colour and optical sensation. Themes such as resilience, acceptance, and self-mastery are translated into immersive chromatic fields where meaning emerges through perception rather than representation.

Each sculpture is produced through a proprietary multi-layered process using dyed resin and mirrored surfaces to create shifting optical effects through depth, transparency, and reflected light. Responsive to movement and environment, the works continually transform in relation to the viewer, positioning light itself as an active material within the composition. Balancing conceptual rigour with sensory experience, Vodden’s practice reflects an ongoing investigation into abstraction, perception, and the emotional potential of colour as a spatial and psychological force.

Oil On Panel (Comes Framed)

Size: 45cm x 55cm

Pippa Young is a contemporary painter whose practice reflects on uncertainty, identity, and materiality within an increasingly fragmented and digitalised world. Working through painting, collage, and redactive processes, her work considers how psychological identity is assembled from fragments of memory, experience, and social context, continually reshaped through interaction and perception. Rather than viewing the instability of contemporary life as loss, Young positions it as a generative condition, opening up space for new forms of attention, intimacy, and meaning-making.

Her paintings emerge from an interplay between rigorous intellectual engagement and quiet, repetitive acts of making. Drawing on an expansive range of cultural and theoretical references, she constructs surfaces that reward sustained looking: finely observed, near-photorealistic elements sit alongside disrupted texts, shifting aphorisms, and layered visual interventions. These works ask to be read as much as seen, where meaning is continually deferred and reconfigured through close attention.

In the context of an image-saturated, screen-mediated culture, Young’s practice offers a deliberate counterpoint, positioning painting as a contemplative space and a repository of accumulated thought, time, and gesture. The result is a body of work that resists immediacy, instead inviting prolonged engagement, where fragmentation becomes coherence and uncertainty becomes form.

Oil On Linen (Comes Framed)

Size: 35cm x 45cm

Pippa Young is a contemporary painter whose practice reflects on uncertainty, identity, and materiality within an increasingly fragmented and digitalised world. Working through painting, collage, and redactive processes, her work considers how psychological identity is assembled from fragments of memory, experience, and social context, continually reshaped through interaction and perception. Rather than viewing the instability of contemporary life as loss, Young positions it as a generative condition, opening up space for new forms of attention, intimacy, and meaning-making.

Her paintings emerge from an interplay between rigorous intellectual engagement and quiet, repetitive acts of making. Drawing on an expansive range of cultural and theoretical references, she constructs surfaces that reward sustained looking: finely observed, near-photorealistic elements sit alongside disrupted texts, shifting aphorisms, and layered visual interventions. These works ask to be read as much as seen, where meaning is continually deferred and reconfigured through close attention.

In the context of an image-saturated, screen-mediated culture, Young’s practice offers a deliberate counterpoint, positioning painting as a contemplative space and a repository of accumulated thought, time, and gesture. The result is a body of work that resists immediacy, instead inviting prolonged engagement, where fragmentation becomes coherence and uncertainty becomes form.

Oil On Canvas

Size: 45cm x 55cm

Pippa Young is a contemporary painter whose practice reflects on uncertainty, identity, and materiality within an increasingly fragmented and digitalised world. Working through painting, collage, and redactive processes, her work considers how psychological identity is assembled from fragments of memory, experience, and social context, continually reshaped through interaction and perception. Rather than viewing the instability of contemporary life as loss, Young positions it as a generative condition, opening up space for new forms of attention, intimacy, and meaning-making.

Her paintings emerge from an interplay between rigorous intellectual engagement and quiet, repetitive acts of making. Drawing on an expansive range of cultural and theoretical references, she constructs surfaces that reward sustained looking: finely observed, near-photorealistic elements sit alongside disrupted texts, shifting aphorisms, and layered visual interventions. These works ask to be read as much as seen, where meaning is continually deferred and reconfigured through close attention.

In the context of an image-saturated, screen-mediated culture, Young’s practice offers a deliberate counterpoint, positioning painting as a contemplative space and a repository of accumulated thought, time, and gesture. The result is a body of work that resists immediacy, instead inviting prolonged engagement, where fragmentation becomes coherence and uncertainty becomes form.

Woven Wool (Comes Framed)

Size: 29cm x 75cm

Jacob Monk is a hand-weaver and textile artist based in South East London, working from a practice grounded in material experimentation and contemporary craft. A graduate of Central Saint Martins, Monk engages with the ancient technique of ikat — in which pattern is formed through the binding and dyeing of warp threads prior to weaving — reinterpreting its logic through a distinctly modern lens.

His work is characterised by richly layered colour fields and rhythmic, unpredictable shifts in tone, often drawing inspiration from natural forms such as tropical flora and exotic birdlife. By combining traditional ikat processes with dip-dyeing and experimental colour placement, Monk introduces a sense of movement and painterly abstraction within the woven surface, resulting in textiles that feel both precise and spontaneous.

Positioned between heritage and innovation, his practice honours the history and technical complexity of weaving while reimagining its visual language for contemporary contexts. Presented as framed textile works, Monk’s pieces extend the boundaries of craft into the realm of collectible design and spatial art.

Woven Wool (Comes Framed)

Size: 40cm x 40cm

Jacob Monk is a hand-weaver and textile artist based in South East London, working from a practice grounded in material experimentation and contemporary craft. A graduate of Central Saint Martins, Monk engages with the ancient technique of ikat — in which pattern is formed through the binding and dyeing of warp threads prior to weaving — reinterpreting its logic through a distinctly modern lens.

His work is characterised by richly layered colour fields and rhythmic, unpredictable shifts in tone, often drawing inspiration from natural forms such as tropical flora and exotic birdlife. By combining traditional ikat processes with dip-dyeing and experimental colour placement, Monk introduces a sense of movement and painterly abstraction within the woven surface, resulting in textiles that feel both precise and spontaneous.

Positioned between heritage and innovation, his practice honours the history and technical complexity of weaving while reimagining its visual language for contemporary contexts. Presented as framed textile works, Monk’s pieces extend the boundaries of craft into the realm of collectible design and spatial art.

Acrylic on Circular Canvas

Size: 80cm Circular

Hisham Echafaki is a self-taught painter and sculptor whose practice explores the relationship between humanity and the natural world through surreal, meticulously detailed depictions of animals and endangered species. Working across oil, acrylic, resin, and clay, Echafaki creates compositions that blur the boundaries between fine art, natural history, and illusion, often incorporating anthropomorphic and trompe-l’oeil elements to challenge perceptions of authenticity and control.

His multidimensional works on Perspex and resin evoke faux-taxidermy specimens, layering intricate patterns inspired by art, science, architecture, and design onto animal forms. While visually rich and immersive, the works carry an underlying ecological urgency, reflecting on environmental fragility, conservation, and the evolving impact of human intervention on the natural world.

Acrylic on Circular Canvas

Size: 80cm Circular

Hisham Echafaki is a self-taught painter and sculptor whose practice explores the relationship between humanity and the natural world through surreal, meticulously detailed depictions of animals and endangered species. Working across oil, acrylic, resin, and clay, Echafaki creates compositions that blur the boundaries between fine art, natural history, and illusion, often incorporating anthropomorphic and trompe-l’oeil elements to challenge perceptions of authenticity and control.

His multidimensional works on Perspex and resin evoke faux-taxidermy specimens, layering intricate patterns inspired by art, science, architecture, and design onto animal forms. While visually rich and immersive, the works carry an underlying ecological urgency, reflecting on environmental fragility, conservation, and the evolving impact of human intervention on the natural world.

Acrylic & Mixed Media on Canvas (Comes Framed)

Size: 60cm x 60cm

Born in Nigeria and educated in England from an early age, the artist’s practice is informed by a deeply personal exploration of identity, cultural memory, and displacement. Working through an instinctive and highly individual visual language, her paintings resist easy categorisation, instead unfolding through a process shaped by intuition, reflection, and emotional inquiry. At the centre of the work is an ongoing negotiation between heritage and belonging, where themes of migration, transition, and psychological geography emerge through layered and often symbolic compositions.

Drawing from both personal history and the surrounding landscapes of the English countryside, the artist creates works that oscillate between figuration and abstraction. Familiar environments are subtly disrupted by dystopian or fragmented elements, reflecting the experience of inhabiting multiple cultural spaces simultaneously. Existing within a threshold of in-betweenness, the paintings explore the fluidity of identity and the ways memory, place, and time intersect to shape contemporary experience. Rich in atmosphere and layered meaning, the work invites contemplation on the complexities of cultural duality and self-reclamation.

Acrylic on Dibond

Size: 80cm x 100cm

Born in Nigeria and educated in England from an early age, the artist’s practice is informed by a deeply personal exploration of identity, cultural memory, and displacement. Working through an instinctive and highly individual visual language, her paintings resist easy categorisation, instead unfolding through a process shaped by intuition, reflection, and emotional inquiry. At the centre of the work is an ongoing negotiation between heritage and belonging, where themes of migration, transition, and psychological geography emerge through layered and often symbolic compositions.

Drawing from both personal history and the surrounding landscapes of the English countryside, the artist creates works that oscillate between figuration and abstraction. Familiar environments are subtly disrupted by dystopian or fragmented elements, reflecting the experience of inhabiting multiple cultural spaces simultaneously. Existing within a threshold of in-betweenness, the paintings explore the fluidity of identity and the ways memory, place, and time intersect to shape contemporary experience. Rich in atmosphere and layered meaning, the work invites contemplation on the complexities of cultural duality and self-reclamation.

Acrylic, Gouache & Mixed Media

Size: 100cm Circular

Born in Nigeria and educated in England from an early age, the artist’s practice is informed by a deeply personal exploration of identity, cultural memory, and displacement. Working through an instinctive and highly individual visual language, her paintings resist easy categorisation, instead unfolding through a process shaped by intuition, reflection, and emotional inquiry. At the centre of the work is an ongoing negotiation between heritage and belonging, where themes of migration, transition, and psychological geography emerge through layered and often symbolic compositions.

Drawing from both personal history and the surrounding landscapes of the English countryside, the artist creates works that oscillate between figuration and abstraction. Familiar environments are subtly disrupted by dystopian or fragmented elements, reflecting the experience of inhabiting multiple cultural spaces simultaneously. Existing within a threshold of in-betweenness, the paintings explore the fluidity of identity and the ways memory, place, and time intersect to shape contemporary experience. Rich in atmosphere and layered meaning, the work invites contemplation on the complexities of cultural duality and self-reclamation.

Acrylic & Ink on Dibond

Size: 80cm x 100cm

Born in Nigeria and educated in England from an early age, the artist’s practice is informed by a deeply personal exploration of identity, cultural memory, and displacement. Working through an instinctive and highly individual visual language, her paintings resist easy categorisation, instead unfolding through a process shaped by intuition, reflection, and emotional inquiry. At the centre of the work is an ongoing negotiation between heritage and belonging, where themes of migration, transition, and psychological geography emerge through layered and often symbolic compositions.

Drawing from both personal history and the surrounding landscapes of the English countryside, the artist creates works that oscillate between figuration and abstraction. Familiar environments are subtly disrupted by dystopian or fragmented elements, reflecting the experience of inhabiting multiple cultural spaces simultaneously. Existing within a threshold of in-betweenness, the paintings explore the fluidity of identity and the ways memory, place, and time intersect to shape contemporary experience. Rich in atmosphere and layered meaning, the work invites contemplation on the complexities of cultural duality and self-reclamation.

Acrylic & Mixed Media on Dibond (Comes Framed)

Size: 60cm x 80cm

Born in Nigeria and educated in England from an early age, the artist’s practice is informed by a deeply personal exploration of identity, cultural memory, and displacement. Working through an instinctive and highly individual visual language, her paintings resist easy categorisation, instead unfolding through a process shaped by intuition, reflection, and emotional inquiry. At the centre of the work is an ongoing negotiation between heritage and belonging, where themes of migration, transition, and psychological geography emerge through layered and often symbolic compositions.

Drawing from both personal history and the surrounding landscapes of the English countryside, the artist creates works that oscillate between figuration and abstraction. Familiar environments are subtly disrupted by dystopian or fragmented elements, reflecting the experience of inhabiting multiple cultural spaces simultaneously. Existing within a threshold of in-betweenness, the paintings explore the fluidity of identity and the ways memory, place, and time intersect to shape contemporary experience. Rich in atmosphere and layered meaning, the work invites contemplation on the complexities of cultural duality and self-reclamation.

Acrylic & Mixed Media (Comes Framed)

Size: 60cm x 80cm

Born in Nigeria and educated in England from an early age, the artist’s practice is informed by a deeply personal exploration of identity, cultural memory, and displacement. Working through an instinctive and highly individual visual language, her paintings resist easy categorisation, instead unfolding through a process shaped by intuition, reflection, and emotional inquiry. At the centre of the work is an ongoing negotiation between heritage and belonging, where themes of migration, transition, and psychological geography emerge through layered and often symbolic compositions.

Drawing from both personal history and the surrounding landscapes of the English countryside, the artist creates works that oscillate between figuration and abstraction. Familiar environments are subtly disrupted by dystopian or fragmented elements, reflecting the experience of inhabiting multiple cultural spaces simultaneously. Existing within a threshold of in-betweenness, the paintings explore the fluidity of identity and the ways memory, place, and time intersect to shape contemporary experience. Rich in atmosphere and layered meaning, the work invites contemplation on the complexities of cultural duality and self-reclamation.

Acrylic, Wax Pastel, Oil Pastel & Pencil (Comes Framed)

Size: 59.9cm x 84.1cm

Kazland is a self-taught multidisciplinary painter whose deeply intuitive practice exists somewhere between dreamscape, memory, and emotional excavation. Creating richly layered works populated by recurring symbols, distorted perspectives, and abstracted forms, Kazland constructs immersive worlds that feel at once playful, haunting, and psychologically charged. Rooted in themes of loss, escapism, and personal mythology, his paintings unfold like fragmented narratives, revealing strange terrains shaped as much by instinct and feeling as by formal composition.

Working almost entirely through intuition, Kazland embraces spontaneity and subconscious mark-making, allowing each work to evolve organically through colour, shadow, and symbol. The resulting pieces possess an outsider sensibility while demonstrating a remarkable command of balance, atmosphere, and visual storytelling. There is both vulnerability and quiet intensity within the work, where moments of darkness are countered by humour, tenderness, and wonder.

Emerging from a distinctly neurodivergent way of seeing and processing the world, Kazland’s practice resists conventional categorisation. His paintings invite viewers into imagined psychological spaces that feel simultaneously unfamiliar and deeply human — places where emotion, memory, and fantasy converge into a uniquely raw and compelling visual language.

Acrylic, Wax Pastel, Oil Pastel & Pencil (Comes Framed)

Size: 59.9cm x 84.1cm

Kazland is a self-taught multidisciplinary painter whose deeply intuitive practice exists somewhere between dreamscape, memory, and emotional excavation. Creating richly layered works populated by recurring symbols, distorted perspectives, and abstracted forms, Kazland constructs immersive worlds that feel at once playful, haunting, and psychologically charged. Rooted in themes of loss, escapism, and personal mythology, his paintings unfold like fragmented narratives, revealing strange terrains shaped as much by instinct and feeling as by formal composition.

Working almost entirely through intuition, Kazland embraces spontaneity and subconscious mark-making, allowing each work to evolve organically through colour, shadow, and symbol. The resulting pieces possess an outsider sensibility while demonstrating a remarkable command of balance, atmosphere, and visual storytelling. There is both vulnerability and quiet intensity within the work, where moments of darkness are countered by humour, tenderness, and wonder.

Emerging from a distinctly neurodivergent way of seeing and processing the world, Kazland’s practice resists conventional categorisation. His paintings invite viewers into imagined psychological spaces that feel simultaneously unfamiliar and deeply human — places where emotion, memory, and fantasy converge into a uniquely raw and compelling visual language.

Acrylic, Wax Pastel, Oil Pastel & Pencil (Comes Framed)

Size: 59.9cm x 84.1cm

Kazland is a self-taught multidisciplinary painter whose deeply intuitive practice exists somewhere between dreamscape, memory, and emotional excavation. Creating richly layered works populated by recurring symbols, distorted perspectives, and abstracted forms, Kazland constructs immersive worlds that feel at once playful, haunting, and psychologically charged. Rooted in themes of loss, escapism, and personal mythology, his paintings unfold like fragmented narratives, revealing strange terrains shaped as much by instinct and feeling as by formal composition.

Working almost entirely through intuition, Kazland embraces spontaneity and subconscious mark-making, allowing each work to evolve organically through colour, shadow, and symbol. The resulting pieces possess an outsider sensibility while demonstrating a remarkable command of balance, atmosphere, and visual storytelling. There is both vulnerability and quiet intensity within the work, where moments of darkness are countered by humour, tenderness, and wonder.

Emerging from a distinctly neurodivergent way of seeing and processing the world, Kazland’s practice resists conventional categorisation. His paintings invite viewers into imagined psychological spaces that feel simultaneously unfamiliar and deeply human — places where emotion, memory, and fantasy converge into a uniquely raw and compelling visual language.

Glass Bugle Beads on Illusion Netting (Comes Framed)

Size: 92cm x 134cm

Sam D'Cruze is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans painting, textiles, and socially engaged art, exploring themes of memory, identity, and resilience through layered surfaces, abstract embroidery, and text-based interventions. Her tactile works balance intimacy with abstraction, using materiality and process to reveal traces of personal and collective experience.

Originally founder of the luxury design label Darkest Star, D’Cruze developed an early sensitivity to craftsmanship, sensuality, and the body that continues to inform her contemporary practice. Textile and stitch become vehicles for narrative, emotion, and repair, reflecting a deeply considered approach to making.

Alongside her studio practice, D’Cruze’s work is rooted in social engagement and community collaboration. Following the loss of her father to alcohol dependency in 2015, her practice evolved into one centred on creativity as a tool for healing and connection. In 2022, she founded Child Of Project C.I.C., supporting individuals in recovery, those experiencing homelessness, and neurodiverse communities through workshops and exhibitions. She holds a Master of Research in Fine Art and Humanities from the Royal College of Art.

Glass Bugle Beads on Illusion Netting (Comes Framed)

Size: 92cm x 134cm

Sam D'Cruze is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans painting, textiles, and socially engaged art, exploring themes of memory, identity, and resilience through layered surfaces, abstract embroidery, and text-based interventions. Her tactile works balance intimacy with abstraction, using materiality and process to reveal traces of personal and collective experience.

Originally founder of the luxury design label Darkest Star, D’Cruze developed an early sensitivity to craftsmanship, sensuality, and the body that continues to inform her contemporary practice. Textile and stitch become vehicles for narrative, emotion, and repair, reflecting a deeply considered approach to making.

Alongside her studio practice, D’Cruze’s work is rooted in social engagement and community collaboration. Following the loss of her father to alcohol dependency in 2015, her practice evolved into one centred on creativity as a tool for healing and connection. In 2022, she founded Child Of Project C.I.C., supporting individuals in recovery, those experiencing homelessness, and neurodiverse communities through workshops and exhibitions. She holds a Master of Research in Fine Art and Humanities from the Royal College of Art.

Original Oil Painting in Canvas (Unframed)

Size: 51cm x 61cm

Denise is a contemporary figurative painter whose practice examines portraiture as a site of identity, visibility, and cultural narrative. Informed by her self-described position as “Artist, Mother, Lesbian, Londoner,” her work challenges the conventions of traditional portraiture through nuanced depictions of contemporary life and underrepresented experience. A graduate of Central Saint Martins in Theatre Design, Denise brings a considered sense of composition, atmosphere, and visual storytelling to her paintings, shaped further by a background in design and artist development. Her practice is rooted in an exploration of community, heritage, and queer visibility, often foregrounding subjects historically absent from institutional and art historical narratives. Through expressive colour, confident form, and an instinctive sensitivity to human presence, Denise creates portraits that are both intimate and socially resonant, positioning everyday individuals within a broader contemporary cultural dialogue.

Original Oil Painting in Canvas

Size: 100cm x 100cm

Denise is a contemporary figurative painter whose practice examines portraiture as a site of identity, visibility, and cultural narrative. Informed by her self-described position as “Artist, Mother, Lesbian, Londoner,” her work challenges the conventions of traditional portraiture through nuanced depictions of contemporary life and underrepresented experience. A graduate of Central Saint Martins in Theatre Design, Denise brings a considered sense of composition, atmosphere, and visual storytelling to her paintings, shaped further by a background in design and artist development. Her practice is rooted in an exploration of community, heritage, and queer visibility, often foregrounding subjects historically absent from institutional and art historical narratives. Through expressive colour, confident form, and an instinctive sensitivity to human presence, Denise creates portraits that are both intimate and socially resonant, positioning everyday individuals within a broader contemporary cultural dialogue.

Acrylic & Emulsion on Board, Comes Framed

Size: 67.5cm x 93.5cm x 4cm

Eleanor Nadimi is a London-based artist working across painting, textiles, and colour-led abstraction. Drawing influence from artists such as James Turrell, Josef Albers, Mark Rothko, and Marion Dorn, her practice investigates the relationship between colour, architecture, and emotional response. Through layered compositions, she considers how spatial and chromatic environments shape perception and mood. Her works are often presented within reclaimed frames, left raw or sensitively restored and painted, extending the language of the canvas into its surrounding structure and gently dissolving the boundary between artwork and environment.

Acrylic & Emulsion on Board, Comes Framed

Size: 71.5cm x 91.5cm x 7cm

Eleanor Nadimi is a London-based artist working across painting, textiles, and colour-led abstraction. Drawing influence from artists such as James Turrell, Josef Albers, Mark Rothko, and Marion Dorn, her practice investigates the relationship between colour, architecture, and emotional response. Through layered compositions, she considers how spatial and chromatic environments shape perception and mood. Her works are often presented within reclaimed frames, left raw or sensitively restored and painted, extending the language of the canvas into its surrounding structure and gently dissolving the boundary between artwork and environment.