Artists to Watch

Artists to Watch

Profiles of painters and makers shaping the city now — who they are, where they work and where you might catch a canvas before the crowd does.

A bright artist studio with canvases on easels

Artists

Five Emerging Painters Working in London Right Now

From Peckham to Walthamstow, five painters in their twenties and thirties worth knowing before the waiting lists.

7 min read · By the editors

Brick arch studios in Camden with warm evening light

Artists

Camden's Hidden Studios: Where the City Paints

Behind locked railway arches, a quiet community of makers keeps working.

6 min read · By the editors

A painting by a woman artist hanging in a bright museum gallery

Artists

Women Artists You Can Actually See in London's Museums

Gentileschi, Vigée Le Brun, Morisot — where the work actually hangs.

7 min read · By the editors

Rows of screen-printing frames in a London print workshop

Artists

London's Printmakers: The Workshops Keeping the Craft Alive

Etching, screenprint and the workshops keeping the presses running.

7 min read · By the editors

A colourful painted wall on a railway arch beside an East London street

Artists

Street Art in East London: A Walk Without the Tourist Hoards

Brick Lane's side streets and the railway walls, before the tours arrive.

6 min read · By the editors

A young sculptor's studio with a half-finished concrete piece on a workbench

Artists

Six Young Sculptors Working With the City's Materials

Six sculptors turning the city's concrete and scrap into new work.

7 min read · By the editors

A studio potter's wheel with a half-finished clay vessel in soft light

Artists

London's Ceramicists: The Studio Potters Making Their Own Rules

From Leyton's big wheels to the shop opposite the British Museum.

6 min read · By the editors

A contemporary portrait painting in progress on an easel in a studio

Artists

Portraiture Today: How London Artists Redraw the Face

Invented sitters, bark cloth and the portrait's second life.

7 min read · By the editors

A shared studio floor in a converted warehouse with works in progress

Artists

Notes From the Studio: How London Artists Protect Their Practice

Rents, open studios and the economics of keeping a practice alive.

6 min read · By the editors

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