Beth Cowey, a Scottish born artist from Glasgow, works with an experimental and personal exploration in painting, print, collage and sculptural processes. She is a thinker in visual relationships to form between works through surface, edge and color. Together, her works speak to questions of structure, fragment, material encoding and play, and a rhetorical, a-parallel logic that exists between them.

Beth Cowey received her BA in Painting and Printmaking at Glasgow School of Art and her MA in Painting at Royal College of Art in London. She is a recipient of The Glasgow School of Art Landscape Drawing Award (2018) and Clyde Hopkins Mentoring Award (2024) and was recently shortlisted for Valerie Beston Award and Valerie Beston Award (both 2024). Her works were exhibited across the UK and in Sweden. 

Painter Felicity Nutt creates complexity and nuance with the simplest of tools, namely line and colour in grid formation. She methodically works through as many variations of the grid as she can think of by investigating factors such asmaterial, spacing of line, and order or combination of colours. Her usage of delicate materials, such as watercolour paint and coloured pencil, that are receptive tothe softest touch, allow her to layer up line and colour incrementally and slowly. Her work results in complex, shifting, and transitioning surfaces that play with optics and investigate the nuances that perhaps get missed in our day-to-day, fast-paced lives.

A British artist Felicity Nutt has received her BA from Aberystwyth University in Wales followed by her MA studies at the Royal College of Art in London. Her most recent show was held at Fitzrovia Gallery in London earlier this year.

Jan Valik approaches and considers his paintings as fluid and psychological territories moving between perceptual ambiguities, emotions and evocations of otherness. Held in a strange balance and uncertain of fixed meanings, these works are indirect or fragmented responses to the world in flux of contradictions in an effort to bypass the subjective to flirt with something universal. Coded in washes of color, impulsive brushstrokes or slowly traced shapes, his interest lies in where the external space affects the internal one and paint from where that intersection is.

Jan Valik, born in Slovakia and based in London, studied at Academy of Fine Arts in Prague and at the Royal College of Arts in London. A recipient of The Vice Chancellor’s Achievement Scholarship, he was previously awarded a VUB Foundation Painting Prize in Slovakia, and recently he was shortlisted for Contemporary British Painting Prize 2021 and The Morrison and Foerster Art Prize 2023 in London. His work has been shown in solo exhibitions in Canada, Belgium, Austria, Slovakia, Czechia and Japan, as well as in group exhibitions in the UK and across Europe, as well as in China and Japan. 

Works of a Korean born painter Soryun Ahn are grounded in their inner fictionality in which she captures the reality she encounters. The paintings reveal points where ancient narratives – akin to myths – intersect with personal imagination, re-emerging as contemporary reality. Within her paintings Soryun constructs new narratives intimate and autobiographical imagery and enigmatic figures constantly struggling to define their existence. The image of death as well as the ironies and mysteries that we encounter in daily life explore the internal world that lies behind what initially appears

Prior to her studies at the Royal College of Art in London, Soryun Ahn studied at Korea National University of Arts in Seoul and was a resident student at Braunschweig University of Art (HBK) in Germany. Her work has been consistently shown in more than a dozen group shows in Seoul and recently in London as well.

Paintings of Tobias Francis are often small-scale and uniform in size. This is a deliberate choice for a conscious approach to limitation which paradoxically liberate and allow him to play with compositional trickery and visual artifice, creating a space where wordplay and paint are lyrically employed. His works can be seen as puzzles to which he in his own words adds: “When I paint, I reconcile both the trickster and straight shooter in me. I’m drawn to the slipperiness of paint (like language) to elucidate and veil, and question how withholding information can inform more, not less”.

Tobias Francis got his BA in Painting from Edinburgh College of Art with a recognition of Outstanding Achievement in Art Award and subsequently his MA from the Royal College of Art in London. He exhibited in group shows across the UK: in London, Edinburgh, Sheffield, Exeter and more.

Practice of British born painter Toby Rainbird is an act of free-spirited, yet self-aware and conscious play centered around forms of demarcation and repetition found in commonplace yet peripheral spaces. Allowing the work to unfold through trial and error rather than following a premeditated trajectory, his works engage with the potential of significant forms while maintain a deliberate distance from direct or heavily symbolic gestures. Each piece is an accumulation of encounters becoming a reconfiguration of tangible articles and a conscious material experience.

Toby Rainbird received his BA from Bath School of Art and Design and his MA from Royal College of Art in London. Apart from numerous exhibitions in London and around the UK, his paintings were shown at Youkobo Art Space in Tokyo as well as in Berlin. He is also active as an artist-curator with his latest curatorial project titled Caper in London. 

Fluid abstractions of Yiwen Liu explore ephemeral and fleeting moments and encounters with an introspective approach to subjectivity of her recollections. Whether people, places or nature, the organic shapes flow in subtle compositions where the enigmatic correlates with the personal and color functions and melts into a state between emotion and atmosphere, memories and presence. 

Yiwen Liu is a graduate from Central Saint Martins and currently Royal College of Art in London. Her work in has been shown in group exhibitions in the UK, notably at Southwark Park Gallery, London and in upcoming BEEP Painting Biennial in Wales (2024).