Next generation: top five British painters to watch
Gillian Carnegie
With her black and white paintings of cats, bottoms, stairs and flowers, Camberwell graduate Gillian Carnegie turns hum-drum domesticity into scenes of elegiac beauty.
Catherine Storey
Conceptual painter Catherine Storey contrives connections between hollywood and the artistic movements of the twentieth century with abstracted paintings of early film equipment.
Dexter Dalwood
Dexter Dalwood won a Turner Prize nomination in 2010 for his paintings which blend contemporary pop culture and art-historical allusions.
Lucy McKenzie
Lucy McKenzie recently exhibited in the Tate Britain’s Painting Now exhibition. Her trompe-l’œil paintings of cork boards have won admiration from critics.
Bartholomew Beal
Bartholomew Beal’s brilliantly weird paintings mix the horror of Francis Bacon with the exotic beauty of Peter Doig. He’s already being snapped up by collectors.