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Lights, camera, don't move! The new wave of English still-life painters (opens the original)
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The most surprising genre of painting to be attracting sustained interest from England’s contemporary artists today is still life. From the soft-focus mimosa of Paul Winstanley (b. 1954) to the strange objects that pepper the abstracted interiors of 2025 John Moores Painting Prize winner Ally Fallon (b. 1998), the genre is making a comeback. Fallon lives and works in Manchester. He studied at the city’s School of Art and Apollo Painting School programme. One of Apollo’s co-founders is Louise Gio
What would Turner think? Meet Britain’s new landscape painters (opens the original)
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In Reynolds’s time, English landscape painting was thought of as less erudite and important than history painting, but the sheer power of J. M. W. Turner’s sublime views and John Constable’s Suffolk scenes enabled the genre to be taken seriously for the first time. David Hockney (b. 1937-2026) continued to draw inspiration from the landscape that surrounded him up until his death earlier this year. Throughout his career, he painted the hot hillsides of California and Yorkshire’s cool leafy lanes
The new school of English painters following in the footsteps of Sir Joshua Reynolds (opens the original)
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Mohammed Sami (b. 1984) is an Iraqi-born artist who now lives and works in London. He was shortlisted for the 2025 Turner Prize and has had solo exhibitions at Camden Arts Centre and Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire. His work offers a new take on history painting, the category that originally occupied the highest tier of Reynolds’s hierarchy. However, rather than presenting battle scenes as glorious feats of heroism, as 18th-century Academicians had done, Sami’s paintings employ memory and subject
England is an important world centre for figurative painters who were born overseas (opens the original)
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Those more likely to commission a portrait than buy an abstract painting are probably already queuing outside the door of Jonathan Yeo (b. 1970). It was from his studio that The King’s huge red official portrait emerged in 2024. However, many English artists painting today are not interested in producing a specific likeness. Rather, they are drawn to the possibilities of the figure itself. Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (b. 1977) paints swiftly and assertively. Her black bodies, on show until September 1
The most sought-after paintings by English artists working today are those that verge on abstraction (opens the original)
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I'm standing in front of the exuberant, comedic and muscular paintings of nonagenarian Rose Wylie (b. 1934) at the Royal Academy of Arts (RA), thinking about what makes an artist and their work quintessentially English. Is it humour, scale, technique or none of these things? The RA first opened its doors in 1768 and its president, Sir Joshua Reynolds, spent the next 21 years orating what English art could and should be in his annual Discourses. As at all European academies, history painting was
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