Bertie Dixon

Juliano: Raw and naked angst from Brasil

Size:40x50cm

Price:NFS

Life drawing from video or still image was seen as a lesser skill, because some of the ‘filtering’ that is the act of drawing is done for you. It’s like serving a ready-meal, I suppose.
During lockdown we artists have been starved of actual human flesh. But in its place there has been a flourish of new drawing classes. Via video conference, we have access to models from all around the world.
Juliano is one of the top models in Brasil. His country, like ours, is being torn apart by bad viruses and worse politics. He wanted to express this anguish through his poses.
He was a pleasure to draw.

Josh Kitson

'Sourdough Loaf'

Size:20x30x10cm

Price:NFS

Sourdough loaf with birds and clouds cut into the dough with a razor blade. This was meant as a father’s day present for our birdwatcher dad, but Rod lost the loaf I sent him in the post and came down and nicked this one from our old man’s table.
Hollowed out and dried and lacquered with PVA glue.

Lirona Rosenthal

Zoom portrait

Size:A4

Price:NFS

This year I returned to drawing after a 30 years break, and started attending model drawing sessions. When the COVID-19 crises started I was hoping that drawing will be my meditative escape, yet struggled to find pleasure drawing at home. It was people that I need to draw. Participating in zoom portrait sessions provided this invaluable opportunity – it felt multi-dimensional, live. The 15 minutes timeframe for each drawing instigated one to catch the highlights of facial features and expressions. It also allowed for a quick result and an immediate satisfaction.
Portrait sessions became a main resource during lockdown. They were my time for myself, an escape from my intense life indoors. When I needed to draw and there were no zoom meetings, I drew self-portraits. I chose to submit three ink and wash samples out of a large collection of zoomed portrait drawings. I chose to note the first name of the model and the zoom session date. This reflects the COVID-19 lockdown art for me.

Ned Handzic

'Zoom mix'

Size:A3

Price:NFS

Three ink sketches of Zoom sitters

James O’Hara

Naked Neon Anna

Size:30x40cm

Price:£80

Giclee print

JL Maxcy

'Because I Can't Hug You'

Size:50x50cm

Price:£500

In my youth I would cling to my stuffed rabbit when I longed for my mother. Trapped in isolation due to a global pandemic and unable to have physical contact with friends or family, I am reminded of that first feeling of loss. Using materials I already had I collaged the likenesses of my loved ones, Because I Can’t Hug You became a group of small works that act as comfort objects, easing my sense of helplessness and loneliness while separated from those I love.

Tom Donaldson

Self Portrait with a Tired Toddler

Size:46cmx36cm

Price:£250

Lockdown with two small children is fun… most of the time. Then there are those days, that usually start too early, where everyone is a little tired and grumpy. The reference photo for this painting of me holding my daughter came from one of those days. I remember, having taken the photo, really liking the cool, dull lighting which seemed to sum up the mood of the day. In painting the portrait I wanted to convey a picture of a tired parent, but also reflect the closeness with my daughter, who thankfully is still at the stage of just wanting a cuddle when she’s not quite feeling herself!

Solomon Grace

'Brad'

Size:46x60cm

Price:£250

Oil on canvas.
“Perfect lover.”

Alice Pipal

Sunset

Size:29x24cm

Price:£30

Watercolour on paper

NED HANDZIC

'Boris'

Size:A6

Price:NFS

A Caricature of BoJo

Jonathan Ambrose

Zoom Man

Size:30x23cm

Price:£50

When lockdown began I was pessimistic about the prospect of doing drawing sessions via zoom, as usually I’m opposed to working from a screen, or from anything other than life. However, I’ve now really warmed to it, and find the sessions very creatively stimulating, perhaps even more so in some respects to usual, ‘in real life’ sessions. I find much of the usual fun carries over, such as the models’ movements, their expressions shifting, the light conditions changing, and the constant pressure of time.
But what makes it different and strange however, is the obvious presence of technology. Zoom imparts so much atmosphere and distortion of its own making, mostly via the lo-fidelity of webcams. I’ve found that what compels me now in these sessions has become less to depict the sitter and their likeness as usual, but rather to depict and consider the effect of technology itself: the thing that sits between me and the sitter, that which separates us.

PAM FROST

'Orange Man'

Size:A4

Price:NFS

‘The disinfectant knocks it out in a minute. One minute.’ – An acrylic painting of Donald Trump inspired by the realisation that we really are lions led by donkeys. The cartoonish nature of Trump’s features are in sharp contrast to the devastating impact his handling of the pandemic has had on his own citizens.

Anna Savva

Pink plant

Size:21cm x 29.7cm

Price:£35

This is a continuous line pen drawing with colour pencil done during an online social with my printing friends. The plant is one I have completely neglected because I never remember to water it due to spending so much time out of the house. Instead of taking better care of it, I decided it would be nice to draw. It used to be very pink, but now it’s half dead. The crispy parched leaves were satisfying to draw. I might water it later.

Clive Dolphin

'Floating Indigos'

Size:45x45cm

Price:£120

Floating Indigos is a piece I made using photos created for me by a friend and model Indigo. At the time Indigo was shielding outside London and so felt even further away. This piece came out of failure. The original drawing I produced didn’t fit on the page 🤦‍♂️ so I cut out the pieces and created this floating collage work instead.
This piece is part of a series of work I started within days of lockdown starting. I realised a lot of models I knew had no income source and no date when that would change. I made an offer to buy any photos anyone who had modelled for me before wanted to sell. I was overwhelmed with the breadth and creativity of the response.

Jim Collett

Koi pond, Sensō-ji Temple

Size:8" x 11"

Price:£25

Hand printed linocut reduction (edition of 5).
Based on a photograph taken on holiday in Tokyo in 2015.
Relief printing is still a relatively new medium for me, and I saw the complexity of this image as a fresh challenge to further my learning in producing reduction linocut prints.

Sarah Victoria Spence

'Let's go outside'

Size:25x35cm

Price:NFS

Monochromatic piece depicting an industrial cityscape. A Victorian feel has been given to the image that depicts the desire to go outside and simply wander, a privilege unknown to women in that era, unless chaperoned. Women locked in their homes. I reflected upon the enforced lockdown, and how it affects us all, and realised that one day most of us will be free to wander again, unlike the women of that era, and eras before, and sadly some who will continue to live imprisoned in their homes due to poor health, abusive relationships or fear shielding themselves or their children from the pandemic and its consequences. Collage, ink on acrylic paper.

Let's go outside by Sarah Victoria Spence

Claire Godfree

Cinnamon Phoenix

Size:14cm x14cm

Price:NFS

In ancient times people believed that the Phoenix carried the cinnamon from the uninhabited places to the world of humans . Lockdown has been a chance to tell stories , to rewrite stories and invent new stories . Making used packaging into new things, part of an ongoing personal project to create one new thing every day.

Sayed Hashumi

'Unreachable'

Size:£180

Price:33x24cm

Chalk on paper
“Little people going to a safe place”

Agata Michalczak

Matryoshka

Size:17x24cm (x4)

Price:£500

Pyrography (wood burning) and acrylic paint on birch wood.

Ayse

'Lap Top Lives'

Size:30x40cm

Price:£120

Acrylic on canvas
“modern technology, virtual life, real life, confusion – an expression of not knowing.”
This artist is a member of The New Art Studio, a unique project based in Islington that provides a therapeutic studio space for asylum seekers and refugees.
www.newartstudio.org.uk
Lockdown and isolation are familiar themes for the members of The New Art Studio, who are used to living with profound restrictions. Stay at home has many different meanings and challenges depending on one’s home. Suspended time is a familiar place. During the lockdown members shared experiences on the WhatsApp group and despite physical separations, remained connected through sharing their work.

Gavin Nicholls

Self isolation portrait 1

Size:48cm x 63cm

Price:N/A

Self isolation portrait 1, oil on canvas board. This was the first portrait I painted during self isolation which I began shortly after lockdown. It reflects the confusion of isolation as the situation unfolded as I think we all experienced varying degrees of that during the past few months. I’ve painted self portraits before but this was a catalyst for a burst of creativity as there was so much additional time to produce work, something positive which arose from the crisis. I love painting portraits and capturing character or mood is what really interests me, something I’m continuing to explore as I develop my work.

Lisha Yin

'Portraits Zoom'

Size:30x40cm

Price:£100

Zoom online drawing was my happiest time during lockdown .Some faces you may be acquainted, someone you may be unfamiliar and perhaps some of them are your friends. Whatever, we have been together during this pandemic and I want to keep every faces into my mind!

Masi

Always Together

Size:£180

Price:23x31cm

Gouache on canvas
This artist is a member of The New Art Studio, a unique project based in Islington that provides a therapeutic studio space for asylum seekers and refugees.
www.newartstudio.org.uk

Thuyha Nguyen

'Peony'

Size:A3

Price:£27

Botanical drawings have always interested Ha and have been something she wanted to explore more when not too busy making jewellery. The slower pace of life dictated by the national lockdown presented Ha with an opportunity to do just that.
Victoria Park provided her with short escapes from quarantine, and the incredible amount of detail involved in a drawing such as this allowed her long, meditative periods becoming deeply focused and absorbed in the observation of the flower, leaving her in a state of calm clarity.
Medium: Print on Giclee Hahnemuhle(Original in Paper & ink)

Cat Coulter

No Margin for Error? Lines on Lockdown.

Size:30x30cm

Price:£50

I must go down to the seas again. These words begin the poem ‘Sea Fever’ by John Masefield. It is one of the nation’s favourite poems. We all love the sea. After weeks of lockdown, mounting ‘cabin fever’ and then a record heatwave, it all got too much for some of us. On behalf of the overwhelming crowds of visitors to the Dorset coast in late June, I thought I should issue a correction, by way of an apology. And as a reminder to self – still in isolation and badly missing my studio by the sea.

Sylvie Pipal

'Bird and Baby's'

Size:A4

Price:£25

Watercolour on paper

Sayed Hashumi

Surviving

Size:53x26cm

Price:£200

Black marker on paper
This artist is a member of The New Art Studio, a unique project based in Islington that provides a therapeutic studio space for asylum seekers and refugees.
www.newartstudio.org.uk
Lockdown and isolation are familiar themes for the members of The New Art Studio, who are used to living with profound restrictions. Stay at home has many different meanings and challenges depending on one’s home. Suspended time is a familiar place. During the lockdown members shared experiences on the WhatsApp group and despite physical separations, remained connected through sharing their work.

Jonathan Small

'Car'

Size:20x28cm

Price:£40

Monochromatic piece depicting an industrial cityscape. A Victorian feel has been given to the image that depicts the desire to go outside and simply wander, a privilege unknown to women in that era, unless chaperoned. Women locked in their homes. I reflected upon the enforced lockdown, and how it affects us all, and realised that one day most of us will be free to wander again, unlike the women of that era, and eras before, and sadly some who will continue to live imprisoned in their homes due to poor health, abusive relationships or fear shielding themselves or their children from the pandemic and its consequences. Collage, ink on acrylic paper.

Marc Craig

Mona Lisa

Size:50x50cm

Price:£250

My version of the Mona Lisa, created using my doodles on my iPad whilst in lockdown and along with a welcome creative burst it was also very therapeutic! Here presented as a limited edition (100) canvas print, 50cm by 50cm, 4cm depth.

Gordon Stewart

'House in Javea'

Size:30x21cm

Price:NFS

Acrylics on paper. A room in a house in Javea, south-east Spain, where I attended a painting course in October 2019 run by Kate MacDonald. During “lockdown” I have attended many virtual classes run by Kate. One week we concentrated on “interior/exterior” views and I chose to paint a bedroom in that lovely old house in the Old Town, to which I hope to return when freedom returns. My first “interior/exterior” painting.

Gordon Stewart

Oare Marshes

Size:30x21cm

Price:£45

“Oare Marshes”. Acrylics on A4 paper. I have spent “lockdown” in Whitstable in North Kent. I have spent a good deal of time walking, and also drawing and painting – sometimes on my own, sometimes in Zoom art classes. One of my favourite walks is over the Oare marshes, just outside Faversham, looking over the Swale to the Isle of Sheppey. I painted this after one of those lockdown walks.

Tania Kaczynski

'Homage to Brian Wilson'

Size:31x39cm

Price:£120

Pen and watercolour on paper.

Homage to Brian Wilson by Tania Kaczynski

Charles Evans

Untitled

Size:28x36cm

Price:£150

Carbon pencil on paper.
This is one of a series made during lockdown of the subject in a state of reflection. I was particularly interested in capturing the special atmosphere during this session.

Charlotte E Padgham

'Remnant V II 8'

Size:31.5x35.7cm

Price:£155

Remnant

a part or quantity that is left after the greater part has been used, removed, or destroyed
.
what remains
.
Series made during COVID-19 lockdown, 2020
What began as a straight print run from 2 of my copper plate RELICs soon became subjected to instinctive intervention and disruption as the hours and days passed.
Every single print made is part of the series. Each imperfection and variation observed and commemorated.
Each unique.
Each part of the LEGACY.
.
Remnant V II 8
Variable Edition from Relic V copper plate (etched from artist’s hair)
Relief & intaglio print, metal leaf on 100% recycled cotton rag paper
105 x 148mm (image size 95 x 75mm)
Frame size: 31.5 x 35.7cm

Mathew Tudor

Madonna After Mantegna. May 2020

Size:50 x 38 cm

Price:£250

A portrait inspired by The Madonna With Sleeping Child by Andrea Mantegna(1470).

Mary Collett

'Silver and gold pendant'

Size:3.5cm

Price:NFS

Silver clay pendent with 24 carat gold leaf detail.

Grace Rawcliffe

Zooming

Size:A3

Price:£135

Pastel life drawing

Joe Barrow

'Alone in the dolls house'

Size:36x46cms

Price:£150

Framed pastel drawing of the living doll alone with her teapot.

Claire Godfree

Glass of beer

Size:14 X 14cm

Price:NFS

Glass of beer , after Picasso . Part of an ongoing project to make one thing a day during lockdown from a single cardboard package . Trying to make things instead of teaching for a glass of beer or a packet of biscuits. Loving the the adventure, and the challenge. Not managing to avoid beer or biscuits.

Clive

'Shadows and Distortion'

Size:53x44cm

Price:£100

Whilst this piece is an interesting watercolour in its own right I think it also parallels the story of 2021. Everything we thought we knew was distorted. The truth lay in part in shadows. But somehow we manage to see through to the end.

Frances Marriott

PANIC

Size:40cmx40cm

Price:£40

Made off the back of watching the evening news on 23/3 alone in my flat. The message ‘you must stay at home’ was watched that night bu myself at 27 million others. I was feeling both a sense of togetherness and loneliness, of fear and nervous energy at the idea that the ‘bigger boys’ didn’t have the answers. And thus came an end to my teacher training as I knew it. I suppose this felt like the scrawling of a message in a toilet cubicle. It’s not profound but needed to be written with the hope of reliving some tension and playing with the unavoidable word within a word. I used some maps from an A to Z from the 1940’s as a background. All in all it was a very quick reactionary piece.

don greenwood

'One World'

Size:70x50cm including box frame.

Price:£290

This photograph was taken, part of a series ‘People From a Distance’, during global lockdown as I was travelling in isolation on a long journey back to the UK. Both the huge plane and massive connecting airport were almost completely closed and empty of passengers.

The aircraft now forms a tragic and ironic symbol for the Covid19 outbreak as, by spreading people globally, it was the cause of the global lockdown and the economic meltdown; but it also represents the ultimate freedoms the human race has garnered to travel and move around, cheaply with such speed and efficiency.

The sterile annonimity of the airport environment and the tiny figures has a strange atomosphere, so this was enhanced in post production by removing some identifiable carrier insignia.

A.K.

Leopard

Size:50x60cm

Price:£600

Oil on canvas

PAM FROST

'Sick Boris'

Size:A4

Price:NFS

Diminished and pale, an acrylic painting of Boris Johnson prior to his hospital admission. I was inspired to experiment with acrylics and use the empty evenings to paint key pandemic figures, slowly gathering a rogue’s gallery of influential figures. Hopefully the cartoonish nature of my figures is captured although sadly there is nothing very funny about the influence men like Boris have on the lives of ordinary UK citizens.

Stuart Mackay

Going Bananas

Size:30x30cm

Price:£60

Charcoal and ink on paper. Model: artist @Annaonwards. 3 poses with bananas. There was a certain staged theatricality – all in her blacked-out front room – for an invisible audience, which for me was a poignant response to being locked down and isolated. What if no-one was watching?

ERI KIKKAWA

'My fashionable friend in my neighbourhood'

Size:A4

Price:N/A

I got inspired by blue tits I came across when I went out for walks in my neighbourhood during lockdown. Their colourful feathers, which reminded me of the deep blue ocean and bright sunflowers in summer, enticed me to explore what makes those small birds look that gorgeous through drawing. I drew this picture wishing that people would soon be able to enjoy beautiful beaches or lovely summer flowers under sunshine without any restriction. The drawing was done by water colour pencils.

My fashionable friend in my neighbourhood by ERI KIKKAWA

Tadhg Caffrey

Lockdown Time

Size:A4

Price:£40

Lockdown was the first time that I tried lino-cut as a medium. It’s been a great experience, giving me plenty of time away from the screens and working on something physical. Time in lockdown seems a strange thing, and the repetition and divergence in this print speaks to what time feels like when we are confined to one space. Each print has 30 layers (2 per clock face), printed in fuchsia, mustard and Prussian blue. There are 4 prints available.

Tania Kaczynski

'Soon Come'

Size:31x39cm

Price:£120

Pen and watercolour on paper

Dan Angelone

In One Ear...

Size:30x40cm

Price:£330

Tinkering about during lockdown has let me find a sketch that I’d started in Berlin some years ago. Perhaps I forgot why I started it, but with the time to consider and reflect, it’s evolved.
Now, with all progress halted, sidetracked on this surreal stagger from the norm, we’re still surrounded by the noise.
Still hearing the same things. It just goes in one ear..
Acrylic on canvas.

Marc Craig

'The Scream'

Size:50x50cm

Price:£250

My version of the The Scream, created using my doodles on my iPad whilst in lockdown and along with a welcome creative burst it was also very therapeutic! Here presented as a limited edition (100) canvas print, 50cm by 50cm, 4cm depth.

Dan Whiteson

Eight Weeks to go

Size:42x29.7cm

Price:NFS

My experience of lockdown has been shot through with uncertainty around my business & practise (I’m both an artist and life drawing teacher), and I’ve struggled to feel particularly creative. However, it has also been a time I shall look back on with great warmth and gratitude as it has been precious time I have shared with my young family at home. With a heavily pregnant partner and a toddler running around, it’s not exactly been relaxing, but it has been full of love and joy.
My usual work deals with the impact of modern, digital life on our physicality as human beings and the work is often clinical and distorted. These drawings are markedly different in both tone and execution from my regular practise and reflect the intimate, loving and meaningful times I have shared with the most important people in my life over the past three months.

Ayse

'So Confused'

Size:30x40cm

Price:£120

Cif, acrylic, fork (mark making) on canvas
“Exploring people’s moods and wellbeing, death and life.”

Leonard Tan

Front Line Heroes

Size:29.7x42cm

Price:£360

An illustration, a pencil sketching created during the lockdown as a memory of this challenging time to fight against Covid-19, and pay respect to the front line heroes who were risking their life to save millions of lives. The black and white illustrated images with the combination of different tension moment that tells the stories. I choose to draw doctors and nurse in their PPE busy at hospital, cardiograph, medical monitor screen, heart pump machine, ambulance and medical specialist with the defibrillator to create an all round situation.

Ned Handzic

'Anya'

Size:A5

Price:NFS

Anya

Wilfrid Wood

Jeans

Size:32W/28L

Price:NFS

May I recommend darning and patching as an excellent isolation pastime? These are my old jeans with new knee patches. All you do is cut out an oval of denim from another ancient pair of jeans and sew it on the backside with needle and thread.
Try it and bodge it, no one cares if it’s not perfect.

Shirley Cheung

'Jersey Giants'

Size:43.5X43.5cm

Price:£300

Woodcut Print.
Part of the ‘Spirit Animals’ series.
The Jersey Giant is a breed originated from New Jersey, USA around 19th century.
The black Jersey Giants were close to extinction in Europe. In the mid 80’s, my dear friend Sam Hay saved the last surviving trio in Shropshire. He had located an other breeder in The Netherlands, they swapped their eggs and reintroduced the breed successfully.

wilfrid wood

self portrait

Size:40x40cm

Price:£250

I’ve done lots of portraits in Plasticine, but never one of myself. Since I’m lacking models, and lockdown has been a period of introspection, I thought I’d have a go. It was also featured in a CNN short documentary, “How 9 Artists are Living and Creating During Self-Isolation”

Lirona Rosenthal

'Zoom portrait'

Size:A4

Price:NFS

This year I returned to drawing after a 30 years break, and started attending model drawing sessions. When the COVID-19 crises started I was hoping that drawing will be my meditative escape, yet struggled to find pleasure drawing at home. It was people that I need to draw. Participating in zoom portrait sessions provided this invaluable opportunity – it felt multi-dimensional, live. The 15 minutes timeframe for each drawing instigated one to catch the highlights of facial features and expressions. It also allowed for a quick result and an immediate satisfaction.
Portrait sessions became a main resource during lockdown. They were my time for myself, an escape from my intense life indoors. When I needed to draw and there were no zoom meetings, I drew self-portraits. I chose to submit three ink and wash samples out of a large collection of zoomed portrait drawings. I chose to note the first name of the model and the zoom session date. This reflects the COVID-19 lockdown art for me.

Clive Dolphin

Byuka in nature

Size:54x44cm

Price:£100

Byuka in nature came out of three photographs I received from a friend and model Byuka. With no UK based family and borders closing Byuka had been forced to leave the country when the lockdown started. The internet was so critical both to Byuka finishing their studies and to me keeping in touch. At a key stage in the painting I added in the eyes. From that point on I felt like Byuka was on the page staring at me. Alternately spooky and comforting.
I was so pleased that the elements of nature I added to the painting were so in touch with the elements of nature Byuka liked. It was like a joining of minds through art.
This piece is part of a series of work I started within days of lockdown starting. I realised a lot of art models had no income source and no date when that would change. I made an offer to buy any photos anyone who had modelled for me before wanted to sell. I was overwhelmed with the breadth and creativity of the response.

JAMES O’HARA

'Betty'

Size:30x40cm

Price:£80

iPad drawing inspired by a photograph of life model Betty. Created during lockdown and printed on Giclee paper.

Ian Fulcher

Elmer Tribal

Size:23cm x 13cm (at their closest)

Price:£50 each or £130 for the set

Elmer Tribal – acrylic on stone

I started painting tribal mask-inspired faces on rocks found on Elmer beach when my Macbook died during the Lockdown. I’ve been keeping sketchbooks of mask doodles for a while so I thought it would be a perfect time to dust off my paints and brushes whilst I was digitally disabled. The painted rocks were returned to the beach and left for people to take as souvenirs, or inspire others to jazz up their pebbles too.

Costanza Vascotto

'Sun Mandala'

Size:19.5cmx29.5cm

Price:NFS

During the lockdown period I have discovered the art of making mandalas. When I was spending all day enclosed in my own room, I have started to think how I could reveal my feelings. And drawing a mandala becomes a natural way to express and loose myself into a more creative, dreamy world than that I was living in my room. I would like to share with you my drawing, named as ‘Sun Mandala’. This mandala wants to represent summer solstice and the beginning of summer, especially with its warm colours. As the nature will start to overflow in abundance on the 21th of June, I do the same by creating something which will bring a receptivity to a new energy, vitality and a new chapter of life.
I drew my mandala with pencil on a sketch pad (A4), passed my drawing with a Faber-Castell-Pitt pen and coloured it with colored pencils. The great thing is that you do not need to focus so much on what you are drawing. In the end your mandala will turn itself into a magical piece of art.

Frank Gambino

Mariangela

Size:A3

Price:N/A

Figure study in chalk pastel and chalk pastel pencil.

Pam Walker

'Lockdown Garden IV'

Size:30 x 20 cm

Price:£190

I was locked out of my studio without any notice … so in a trice I lost my private space, my sanity and my oil paints. I bought some acrylics, a new medium for me, and painted furiously from my window …. lucky to have a court yard garden

Anna Niman

Reflect Lockdown

Size:24x30cm

Price:NFS

Watercolour original.
A self portrait, one of many during 2020 isolation, reflecting the infinite fluctuations, distortions and expressions, shared in my company during isolation. Yours to decide the moment caught here.

Original not for sale, a giclee print is available for £65

Kevin Burgess

'Productivity'

Size:Film - 2:19min

Price:NFS

Conceived and created in 40 minutes in early May in order to fill the space vacated by the ephemera of normality. Making a film in black and white forces the viewer to engage with the content of the film rather than the aesthetic. Shot and edited on my iPhone in my flat in Surrey Quays.
Music: Sabotage by the Beastie Boys

Florence Goodhand-Tait

e-Life Drawing

Size:A3

Price:£50

Drawing from an online Brixton Life Drawing session of the flexible model Andrew Crayford using blue and brown ink.

Anna-Maria Amato

'Playing Freedom'

Size:30x40cm

Price:£55

The piece is an oil on canvas. Since lockdown I have taken my interest in painting dance, textile patterns and natural forms, and morphed them together in waves of energy and emotion across each canvas. This was the beginning of a series of work where I feel I have found expression and excitement. While I have been working from home and finding new ways to connect with the people in my life, the freedom I have found is through gratitude. The appreciation of the security of my environment, excitement about the potential with the time I have, and the skills I have built up to fight mind over mood. I curate a gallery, founded in a social inclusion project with the ethos that it is a safe space to be brave. My personal investment in the project is related to the belief that the cultural sector requires the voices of the underrepresented to tell their stories so that inclusive decisions are made in our communal journey to equality.

Cristina Romano

Proximity

Size:40.6x30.3cm

Price:NFS

Tim Stocks

'Book of lockdown drawings/Fat men's club picture'

Size:Painting: 90x70cm, book of 21 drawings 70x50cm

Price:book £75 per page, painting £500

The book is pictures that I’ve been inspired to do during lockdown including NHS New York Winston Churchill VE day and other drawings which I’ve been inspired to draw and the New York mens fat club a 1930s gathering of great characters!!!!they look fwd to meeting you all which is oil pro marker pen on linen canvas.

Book of lockdown drawings/Fat men's club picture by Tim Stocks

Pam Frost

Mum Behind Invisible Bars

Size:A4

Price:N/A

A portrait of my 91 year old mother painted in the first week of lockdown. On hearing that all coffee shops were closed and that she faced 3 months inside she remarked that ‘Even during the war we were allowed to go out.’

Megane Souchet

'Self Portrait'

Size:25x32cm

Price:NFS

For a long time I wanted to try painting with oil. This amount of free time permitted by the lockdown was the perfect opportunity. This self-portrait is the first portrait I achieved while apprehending this new technique.
Painting every day during this isolation was my best remedy to anxiety. Each time I was sitting at my easel, I was deeply anchored in the present, guided by colours and shapes.

Debra Collis

Sonja on Sunday

Size:30x42cm

Price:£50

Portrait of Sonia via online zoom platform. Many distortions and different poses occur rather than straight forward live face to face sittings. Whilst drawing this one I found I was looking at her face from an upward position – which is something not obvious at first on a 2D screen. Anyway, she wore a lovely pink blouse with matching pink lipstick so the colours were quite vivid!

Tong Yuk Ying

'Ilinca'

Size:12x18cm

Price:£180

Moved to London by myself a year ago, I missed my parents a lot during the lockdown. Requested from a friend, he asked me to paint a portrait for her daughter. When I received the photo, I was so moved. When I was a kid, I used to see my father’s as a hero, he was tall and strong but I reckon I never imagine how could I be like in my father’s eyes when I was a kid and how does he feel to see her daughter growing up so fast in a blink of an eye.

Jim Collett

Meldon Reservoir, Dartmoor

Size:10" x 10"

Price:£20

Hand printed woodcut reduction (edition of 5).
Based on an image by photographer Michael Hewson (instagram.com/mph_foto).
Lockdown gave me the perfect opportunity to further explore relief printing as a medium. This was my first artwork produced during isolation. It was a challenge to achieve the highly contrasting tones and atmosphere of the source image.

Big_Sepz

'Don't Escape Love'

Size:36x25cm

Price:£110

Pen, acrylic, glitter on paper
“Love is worth more than money.”
This artist is the son of a member of The New Art Studio, a unique project based in Islington that provides a therapeutic studio space for asylum seekers and refugees.
www.newartstudio.org.uk

Zoe Boltt

Feetlings

Size:A4

Price:£50

During lockdown I explored the raw feelings experienced as a result of being controlled by the pandemic, and how it reduced us to a regressive childlike state. This piece captures the negative emotions felt which so many of us turned to Instagram to voice them- a bit like wearing your heart on your sleeve, except feelings on our feet.
It’s an oil pastel drawing, which was the concluding image to my ‘baby series’, after I stared at my feet too long and thought my toes looked like bald headed infants. It’s probably the darkest thing
I’ve made and it felt like the most natural response to Covid and the consequent circumstances that arose from it, including a break up, a university course rejection and an uncomfortable living situation.

Gordon Stewart

'Isolation Breakfast'

Size:31x21cm

Price:£45

Still life in acrylics on A4 paper. Painted in May 2020. Breakfast at our house in Whitstable in Kent during the “lockdown”. We were lucky: the house is by the sea, so breakfast was often followed by a walk in glorious weather along the beach or in the nearby marshes or the Kent Downs. Then home for a spot of painting or drawing on my own or at Zoom art sessions.

Rod Kitson

Back-and-forth portrait with Marc

Size:30x30cm

Price:NFS

During lockdown I was desperate to find a way to continue the portraits project which I started earlier this year, of which I have done 150 so far all in this same size format.
They were all from life and I was conscious that I did not want to slavishly copy photographs but try and find a way to make the paintings look fresh. So this was a back-and-forth with artist Marc Craig. It started with a photo of him, which he sent to me and I then made a drawing of. I then sent that drawing back to him, and he made his version of that on the iPad, adding his own style and motifs. His work encouraged me to be stronger with my imagery and colours, which I used accents of to create my own subconsciously claustrophobic symbols-based portrait.

Lirona Rosenthal

'Zoom portrait'

Size:A4

Price:NFS

This year I returned to drawing after a 30 years break, and started attending model drawing sessions. When the COVID-19 crises started I was hoping that drawing will be my meditative escape, yet struggled to find pleasure drawing at home. It was people that I need to draw. Participating in zoom portrait sessions provided this invaluable opportunity – it felt multi-dimensional, live. The 15 minutes timeframe for each drawing instigated one to catch the highlights of facial features and expressions. It also allowed for a quick result and an immediate satisfaction.
Portrait sessions became a main resource during lockdown. They were my time for myself, an escape from my intense life indoors. When I needed to draw and there were no zoom meetings, I drew self-portraits. I chose to submit three ink and wash samples out of a large collection of zoomed portrait drawings. I chose to note the first name of the model and the zoom session date. This reflects the COVID-19 lockdown art for me.

Natalie Webb

Everyday hero fights invisible threat

Size:53.5cm x 43.5cm

Price:£140

Acrylic paint on paper.

Izzy Glanville

'Sledge hammer'

Size:3ft

Price:NFS

Having been meaning to tackle the project for several years now but never having managed to find the time, I decided to embark on the removal of a 2×5 metre area of decking on a raised platform of concrete blocks and earth during a few days off work shortly before lockdown began.
I anticipated the project taking me 2 to 3 weekends to complete and generating around 50 bags of earth and rubble which I would drive to the local tip along with the timber from dismantling the decking, handrail and pergola above.
19 weeks and still counting, (including a well-timed 6 week stint of furlough), 200+ rubble bags, around 45 dense concrete blocks and 100 or so bricks later, the above caused the initial few bags of rubble to grow into an alarming heap, first filling my side return before taking over my mum’s driveway during the untimely temporary closure of the local tip. Having since managed to fit the majority of the above (including the timber sawn into smaller pieces) into my tiny Citroen C1 upon the tip’s never-so-eagerly-anticipated reopening, the project is at last looking excitingly close to completion having kept me amused, toned, usually filthy, and often bruised and calloused during lockdown.
The poor sledge hammer (which is about as elderly as my back now feels), didn’t survive the project, having broken in two after smashing out the first few concrete blocks
It was rather old and not too well cared for, belonged to my dad and could easily have been around 50 years old. Having since replaced it with a much more modern upgrade, I will be hanging onto the pieces as an apt momentum of this awesomely physical at times overwhelming demolition project.

Lee Phaik Kee

3 months and counting

Size:21cm x 15cm sketchbook 28 sheets

Price:£20 per sheet

I am a Malaysian who has been stranded in UK during the COVID19 pandemic.
It was supposed to be a 3 weeks holiday in UK. What was it like being stranded in Yorkshire as a foreigner?
This sketchbook has bits and pieces of my life in Huddersfield during the lockdown. I recorded what I saw and felt, as an individual existence in this world.

Rachel Wyatt

'Middle Spoon'

Size:30x20cm

Price:NFS

Middle Spoon is an oil painting about the bright side of lockdown; lazy mornings with my little family.
I like the idea of painting men in vulnerable, romantic poses that echo old paintings of the male gaze, while keeping it a picture of real life; not over romanticised or objectified.
I have always been a portrait painter but in this case the setting of the scene was extra important, so including a background was a bit of something new in lockdown.

John Pipal

Mark

Size:A3

Price:£150

Traditional portrait
Conté Pastels on 140gsm eco A3 brown craft paper
This picture of Mark was done in one of the first Sunday @shoal_of_art online portraits groups when we were still trying out ways to run the Covid classes with Zoom.

Isaku Gotoh

'Untitled'

Size:30x30cm

Price:£80

A watercolour portrait.

John Williams

Making the world a smaller place

Size:54x44cm

Price:NFS

This is a piece of work that never would have happened if it was not for the Covid 19 lock down. The model johnmcmodel is from Melbourne and I came across him on Instagram where I saw some of his work and asked if I could draw from it, I was very conscious that for many models that this is their livelihood and didn’t want to use the image without making it right. I reached out started chatting and after a little backwards and forwards including getting blocked from making payment by Western Union, learning a lot about international banking and meeting an amazing model this is the end product. I feel that this drawing is part of a positive lock down story, for me when we were all stuck in our houses and cadged my horizons expanded and become global all thanks to an Australian on Instagram :))

Bo Cosfranz

'Silhouettes 10'

Size:50x40cm

Price:£320

This acrylic on canvas painting is a continuation of my “Silhouettes” series, which I have been working on over the last few years. For me, this painting can symbolise isolation or introversion, which is also relevant for many people’s experiences during lockdown. The straight lines are contained within the person’s silhouette, as they are no longer able to influence their surroundings. The natural colours inside the face symbolise the person confronting their true nature during extended periods alone. The bright yellow of the background reflects the desire to experience the outside world but is also hopeful for the future.

Anna Judge

Cherry Blossom

Size:40x50cm

Price:£195

Charcoal drawing of cherry blossom in a Campari bottle.
Picked early on in isolation during a daily walk, and drawn from life in isolation.

Annabel Stockman

'Repair (Unfinished)'

Size:24x15cm

Price:NFS

Antique Chinese porcelain bowl applied with pottery and clay foreshore finds collected over time from the Thames at Rotherhithe. During lockdown I remembered my intention years ago to repair the bowl, and one night in a dream I knew this was the way to do it. The piece is unfinished; a work in progress.

Aida Topcagic

Fadi 15 minute portrait

Size:A4

Price:NFS

15 minute pencil drawing of Fadi at Wednesdays virtual drawing session

Layla Mohamed

'Lockdown Baby'

Size:420x297mm

Price:N/A

Ink and watercolour in paper. Depicts father and newborn daughter. Father enjoys a good book and a glass of wine.

Bec Dennison

Soda Heads - SS2020 Triptych Edition

Size:42cm H x 70cm W

Price:£50/£110 set of 3

These are the Soda Heads – Pop coloured fragments of the layers, fizz and chaos of our mental landscape.

I needed to do something to calm the noise at the start of lockdown so I started drawing over existing Risograph prints I made of the Soda Heads a while back.

Lockdown initiated the work and also dictated the mediums – I had to use whatever I had in the studio.

Drawing, writing over, adding colours and erasing details of the print felt cathartic and constructive while everything else felt stressful and out of control. I guess I zoned out and processed everything. Masks were added over their faces (as suggested by a friend) and the text “When Will I See You Again?” was scrawled unintelligibly in the background.

It’s a question (accompanied by the chorus from the song of the same name) that has been stuck on repeat in my head since lockdown began. Like Covid, I wish it would go away.

Tadhg Caffrey

'The Hopeful Printer'

Size:A4

Price:£20

Lockdown was the first time that I tried lino-cut as a medium. It’s been a great experience, giving me plenty of time away from the screens and working on something physical. In this print I wanted to represent the inherent hope and peace of mind that creativity can give us. This is a one-layer lino-cut print made by hand.

Cindy Glover

Escape from Lockdown

Size:32x42cm

Price:NFS

Craft -cross stitch. Staying close to my son.
In December 2019 my son went cycling around New Zealand for a couple of months ….12 months later he is still there! I sewed this picture as a way of keeping in touch with him during lockdown.

Charlotte E Padgham

'Remnant IV I 7'

Size:25.5x 21.7cm

Price:£145

Remnant

a part or quantity that is left after the greater part has been used, removed, or destroyed
.
what remains
.

Series made during COVID-19 lockdown, 2020

What began as a straight print run from 2 of my copper plate RELICs soon became subjected to instinctive intervention and disruption as the hours and days passed.
Every single print made is part of the series. Each imperfection and variation observed and commemorated.
Each unique.
Each part of the LEGACY.
.
Remnant IV I 7
Variable Edition from Relic IV copper plate (etched from artist’s hair)
Intaglio & relief print, ‘liquid leaf’ metallic paint on 100% recycled cotton rag paper
105 x 148mm (image size 95 x 75mm)
Frame size: 25.5 x 21.7cm

Sneaky Cat

Facecrime

Size:A3

Price:NFS

Starting as a doodle during endless hours on TEAMs meetings in my living room I glimpsed a dystopian future where life is lived through a telescreen. I found myself dreaming rude thoughts, wishing my boss would f**k off: ‘There was even a word for it in Newspeak, Facecrime it was called.’ George Orwell 1984.

NED HANDZIC

'The Academic'

Size:20x15cm

Price:NFS

A Portrait of Helen

Aida Topcagic

Adrian 15 minute portrait - 17 June 2020

Size:A4

Price:NFS

15 minute pencil drawing of Adrian at Wednesday‘s virtual drawing session

Bernd Reichert

'Jeune femme au vase en laiton (Elena)'

Size:38 x 28 cm

Price:250 Euro

It’s a drawing made with trois crayons on old mi-tone vergé paper (I can’t identify the brand of this old hand-made paper, certainly 100-150 years old). The drawing was made based on a Zoom life drawing, something I never did before the lockdown.

Jeune femme au vase en laiton (Elena) by Bernd Reichert

James O’Hara

Queen with the Pearl Earring

Size:30x40cm

Price:£80

iPad portrait drawing inspired by Vermeers Girl with the Pearl Earring. Queen with the Pearl Earring. Giclee paper created during lockdown.

David Riley

'Untitled'

Size:45x35cm

Price:NFS

Oriental woman’s portrait.

Kasper Pincis

Lockdown Tally

Size:21x15cm

Price:£200

Cyanotype toned with coffee, edition of 5.
Lately I mainly work with cumulative processes, for example typing or photocopying over and over onto the same sheets of paper, so building a tally seems to fit into that pattern. Just before lockdown I was busy working towards a solo exhibition which had to be postponed so the anticlimax slightly floored me and I was struggling to make work. I managed to get some cyanotype paper though which really kept me going as i love to experiment with a process.

Louise Anscomb

'Orchid'

Size:29.7x42cm

Price:£120

The small balcony at home became a sanctuary where I grew and tended to sweet peas, rosemary, daffodils, dahlias, roses and more. Despite everything happening on the ‘outside’ world and perhaps as a result of it and our changed environment, the flowers bloomed brilliantly. It felt fitting to immortalise these moments on paper, respecting at once their fragility and strength.

Alina Marinchenko

Bernie (Zoom portrait)

Size:21x30cm

Price:21cm x 30 cm

Watercolor on paper – a portrait via Zoom.
The peculiar colours come from contrast lapm light lit in a dim room, and then shown on a computer screen.
The person shown is passionate about Art, and always attended (still does) portrait sessions.

Online sessions allow more boldness in style & approach, you can paint “like nobody’s watching”.

Clive Dolphin

'Super-Hero'

Size:54x44cm

Price:£100

Beatrix Carlotta is a very talented producer, performer and costume maker. This set of three paintings comes from an in house photo shoot Beatrix Carlotta created. The costume was made by Beatrix for a production that was due to have started just after lockdown was declared. I was so glad that my little project had produced a platform on which the costume, and it’s creator, would be seen. Hand made costumes this good deserve an outing, even if it’s a virtual one!
This piece is part of a series of work I started within days of lockdown starting. I realised a lot of art models had no income source and no date when that would change. I made an offer to buy any photos anyone who had modelled for me before wanted to sell. I was overwhelmed with the breadth and creativity of the response.

Helen Jacobus

Emma (video)

Size:29.5x42cm

Price:£19

Watercolour and pencil. This life drawing of Emma was drawn from a video hired online via the website Adrian Dutton Life Drawing. I have drawn Emma many times before lockdown as she is a well-known model in London and I am a regular attender of London Life Drawing, owned by Adrian, and held in different locations in East London. It was the first time I had drawn a model from a video. I enjoyed the experience of drawing from life outside of a a real-time class with other artists and a tutor. It was peaceful and unpressurized, like having your own model (which I have never experienced).

Nick Richards

'Self Portrait, Rembrandt Light'

Size:10in x 12in

Price:£300

Self-portrait with long lockdown beard and DIY mohican haircut standing by a window. The light coming at an angle of 45 degrees from the top right suggested the title of Rembrandt Light, as did the overall Old Master vibe. In February I visited Rembrandt’s house in Amsterdam and last year there was a wonderful exhibition of that title at Dulwich Picture Gallery.

Self Portrait, Rembrandt Light by Nick Richards

Rod Kitson

Absentee Portrait #1

Size:30x30cm

Price:NFS

This was the first of five ‘absentee’ portraits I made of the space on my sofa where people would have sat for portraits if the coronavirus hadn’t kicked in. I was struggling with motivation for the first few weeks of lockdown, so these were a way of getting some discipline back and finding a way to make myself work again. The absentee portraits will be included in the big portrait exhibition (300ish) I am planning to complete in 2020, as it is a real document of what was going on at that time, and I approached the painting with the same method, intent and commitment as I would have done if there had been someone sitting there.
Oil on canvas.

Reyhaneh

'Destination'

Size:43x36cm

Price:£180

Watercolour on paper
“Keep safe in your new destination.”
This artist is a member of The New Art Studio, a unique project based in Islington that provides a therapeutic studio space for asylum seekers and refugees.
www.newartstudio.org.uk

Mehmet Arslan

Leaf is a lie

Size:35x45cm

Price:£250

Lino cut
“Leaves are really important for this world but nobody cares about that!”

Brahim

'Innocent'

Size:40x50

Price:£500

Oil on canvas
This artist is a member of The New Art Studio, a unique project based in Islington that provides a therapeutic studio space for asylum seekers and refugees.
www.newartstudio.org.uk

Gordon Stewart

Whitstable, West Beach

Size:30x21 centimetres unframed

Price:N/A

A seascape in acrylics on A4 paper. The subject is a rough sea pounding onto the beach just outside my house in Whitstable, Kent, where I have been staying during “lockdown”. It was executed during and after a Zoom “landscape with water” painting class with Kate MacDonald in Javea, based on sketches and photographs. I have begun painting a few landscapes, some showing a bit of water, during lockdown but this is my first real seascape.

Josie Deighton

'Floating'

Size:13 x 8 cm

Price:£200

This painting is of Anders, from a video they did for London Drawing, breathing in the bath. They are a dancer and a life model. It reminds me of Ophelia and the serene stillness of submerging your ears under water.

Sammy Pipal

Baboon

Size:A5

Price:NFS

Mixed media on paper

Marios Rotsa

'Emily'

Size:A5

Price:£50

Drawing, Watercolour Pencils.
This piece is of Emily, an art model I collaborate regularly with, she is based in the USA. I create this using a photo reference.
This drawing is actually from my sketchbook. I’m still a bit old school, not yet discovered digital art. I usually have a sketchbook wherever I go, I also use it at home to create sketch ideas, play with colour and composition.

Sally Eldars

Still Trapped

Size:42x36

Price:£350

This mixed media painting on recycled cotton paper was part of the 30/30 art challenge during lockdown, which gave me something to look forward to each day. This one was painted on 28 April, by then I had started to feel slightly claustrophobic even though I had access to large garden, and we were very lucky with the weather during that time and was also able to go on long dog walks. I was feeling trapped but knew that this time would eventually pass. The gold and yellow on the outskirts of the painting mirror my feelings of hope and looking towards the future over the horizon. It’s an amalgamation of a landscape, the view of my garden and a self-portrait. I had never done a self-portrait before lockdown and now since 1st June, I have set my self a challenge to do a self-portrait painting or sketch a day. Not sure when I will stop!

I allowed myself to acknowledged the fact that it was ok to feel trapped.

Tom Ledger

'Rod Kitson'

Size:42x52cm

Price:NFS

A half hour portrait of Rod in charcoal from the weekly Shoal of Art portrait group. I often went to the group when I lived in London but since moving to Birmingham have done hardly any drawing. The silver lining of the lockdown for me has been this group and others doing online classes via Zoom, so I’ve been able to get back into drawing and see old friends at the same time.

Lee Phaik Kee

Recharge

Size:30x40cm

Price:£280

Medium: acrylic on canvas
The life of isolation repeats on its own, unconsciously. There are special moments behind everything, therefore I used cheerful colours to describe a common scene in my adoptive home.

Ellen Sheppard

'Ceramicist in Blue'

Size:110cm x 52cm

Price:£120

During the isolation period I have reflected on things that I would like to do: to learn italian, to bake, to learn how to make ceramic art and pottery. Ceramic lessons are not going ahead during lockdown and so I settled for the next best thing: painting my favourite ceramic artist instead. The painting was created on cardboard as there were no opportunities to buy a large canvas. I created with the best I had.

A.K.

Cold Nature

Size:38x33cm

Price:£180

Acrylic on cardboard
“The work and the nature in the image looks annd feels angry.”

James O’Hara

'Judge'

Size:30x40cm

Price:£200

Giclee print

A.M.Y.

Flowers

Size:46x33cm

Price:£190

Black pen on paper

Adrian Dutton

'Kids Playing On The Sluice'

Size:86cmx30cm

Price:NFS

The Drawing is of a group of Children playing, during the lock down, on a sluice gate on the outskirts of Tilbury.

Kids Playing On The Sluice by Adrian Dutton

Josie Deighton

Lying Figure I

Size:20 x 13.5 cm

Price:£200

Painting from a drawing made in life drawing class.

Anna Niman

'The Great Escape'

Size:30x50cm

Price:£70

A Triptych of Photomontages formed from original own photos. Photos taken and montages formed during lockdown and isolation over the months. Coming to terms with my only safe available outdoor areas just outside my home, striving to see forms of escape and transformation, as an effort was eventually made to make it a place to be, inside and out.

THORA FOY

The Animals Went In One By One

Size:50x40cm

Price:NFS

When I walk around parks with my dog, I find all kinds of things dropped or lost. I take them home and see them in new role! I am addicted to looking for them. I also think of Joseph Cornell each time.

David Gollancz

'Shadowcast Jonathan'

Size:A4

Price:offers

iphone photo of evening shadows cast by Jonathan (@jonathanchanpainting) drawing, chair and leaves blowing

Lauren Mason

Water Boiling

Size:Film – 1:39mins

Price:NFS

‘Water Boiling’ is a short experimental film created during lockdown shot on tape and converted for digital manipulation.
The 1:39m moving image summarises lockdown into a short mundane task, boiling a pan of water. The repetition of our days during lockdown could be comparable to watching the same tedious tasks happen over and over again.
The water that begins to boil under the pressure of the lid causes a raucous, wanting to escape out the side in spurts and bubbles. Flames roll up the pan as frustration builds but there is nothing we can do, the water must boil.
Eventually, after perhaps too long, the lid is removed by the bored water boiler, bubbles and boils leaping out, accompanied by a disturbing high frequency sound associated with emergency broadcasts on television.
The idea came during lockdown as a way to express and channel the emotional waves that we have experienced. Although having played with moving image before, this was an entirely new piece for me.

Felicity Runchman

'Four Friends in Lockdown'

Size:35.5x25.5

Price:NFS

During lockdown so many interactions that would ordinarily have taken place face-to-face were transported online – familiar faces squished into squares on a shiny screen. In the early days of lockdown I had a Zoom chat with three of my closest friends and one of them took a screenshot that they later shared. Keen for an artistic challenge, and also wanting to capture something about the nature of this strange time, I decided to turn it into a painting. Each brushstroke got me thinking about the nature of female friendship, how fond I am of these three women, and how it’s usually relationships that get you through tough times like these!

Four Friends in Lockdown by Felicity Runchman

ROD KITSON

Lockdown mind

Size:24x36in

Price:£999

Before lockdown I was knee-deep in a portraits-from-life project, and when that stopped I realised that isolation had given me the opportunity to be more narrative in my approach to image-making.
I was able to take longer over the painting than I had before, and let my imagination and intuition guide the journey of the painting.
Some of the motifs were straight rips from influences I was consuming in and around that time, others were more cerebral and I really enjoyed the way the metaphors revealed themselves subconsciously.

Frances Marriott

'Rod'

Size:A3

Price:NFS

In lockdown, Zoom portrait meet-ups have been moments of intimacy and a way to draw without feeling self conscious of being in a room with people. The focus is solely on the sitter, who occasionally blinks or shuffles in their seat, reminding you that you are indeed drawing from life (albeit seen through screens) and not just a photograph. This drawing therefore feels slightly off, somewhat distorted because it’s a face I know so well, that somehow looks and feels a million miles away: flattened and reformed onto my screen and then onto the paper.

Pam Walker

Lockdown Garden V

Size:50x60cm

Price:£800

As for the other entry

Ruth Chambers

'Untitled (Water-Skis at Juan-Les-Pins, 1959)'

Size:20x21cm

Price:£200 + frame

Untitled (Water-Skis at Juan-Les-Pins, 1959) by Ruth Chambers

Mark Lovelace

Five Portrait Heads

Size:24x32cm

Price:£50

Five portrait heads in pencil, ink pen, watercolour and gouache, in various styles, based upon drawings made in an online “Draw Each Other” meetup.

Brahim

'Human Being'

Size:40x50cm

Price:£500

Oil on canvas

David Windmill

Alstroemeria

Size:32x38cm

Price:£55

In the first weeks of the lockdown it wasn’t always easy to buy art materials online – a lot of things were out of stock. So I decided to use an Amazon envelope for this painting.

Masi

'Hope'

Size:36x43cm

Price:£150

Charcoal and coloured pencil on paper
“I hope that good days will come and that children will enjoy their life.”

Tong Yuk Ying

How long do I have to wait?

Size:12x16cm

Price:£140

Most of the people are assigned to work from home during the lockdown. This is the face that you made all the time in a work call. Even the connection is shit that you have already been waiting for more than 5 minutes for that person to pick up the call, you still have to keep your smiley face just in case the person you call pick up the phone in anytime so I am just wondering..how long do I have to wait?

Charles Evans

'Lockdown Laguid'

Size:30x38cm

Price:£150

Media: carbon pencil on paper.

Four months into lockdown brings a feeling of lethargy. The model is preparing for another day…
I wanted to depict this condition in a study.

Sarah Victoria Spence

The Stars Look Down

Size:30x30cm

Price:£200

I have been deeply moved by the toppling of imperialist symbols of wealth and power gained through the slave trade such as Colston, Confederate generals, Columbus and other so called “pioneers”. This is just the beginning of an important battle but we must ensure future generations never forget the centuries of history of the horrors of colonialism, enslavement and human trade that displaced, destroyed, and murdered generations of African and indigenous peoples from around the world. This piece is entitled The Stars Look Down. The falling figure in the centre is dressed in modern day attire, a comment on the fact that we must not ignore that crimes are still being committed today through enslavement and people trafficking and that racism, prejudice and discrimination in myriad forms is still alive and kicking. Each area in the work is representative of the past and present: History made, and in the making. The work is in paint, oil pastel, charcoal and collage on canvas board.

Leonard Tan

'Spiritual Owl'

Size:23.5x31.5cm

Price:£320

Spiritual Owl represents the deep connection with wisdom, good judgement and knowledge. May be there is a message to tell us via the ability of their good vision and observation. The owl was crying about 10 minutes outside my window for three nights since the first day locked down in London on 23rd March 2020. It inspired me to create this watercolour painting to note down the memory of the lockdown in London.

Leonard Tan

Abundant Blessings

Size:50x40cm

Price:£680

The oil painting created at my rented room in north London during the lockdown period. Everyday I look out my window, there were words, music, stories and messages from the mother nature. The spectacular sunset scenery from my window represents the felling of my grateful heart to the abundant blessings. It is also a memory of this lockdown circumstances in the covid-19 pandemic.

Janine Hall

''Snippets of Conversation' (2)'

Size:10cm dia/11cm dia

Price:NFS

Lockdown seems to have been a period of make and mend, sorting out, picking up things left on one side to complete later, tidying up and recycling. This project fits into the latter. It was a work, ‘Snippets of Conversation, 2010 and it’s been hanging around. The snippets were collected over a year in cafes, streets and public places. I wanted the words to float in space hence its original format.
In its recycled form I have condensed the space (the wire ball) and joined the words into one length to wind them together. The words have merged into one internal hum or been muted… who knows. They are still there…

'Snippets of Conversation' (2) by Janine Hall

Ned Handzic

Locked Down

Size:A3

Price:NFS

A portrait of Peter

Tina Crawford

'Noel Fielding portrait doll'

Size:45cmx20cm

Price:NFS

During isolation I’ve been working on a large scale project about lockdown highlights, my lockdown highlight has been Sky Arts Portrait Artist TV show being live every week with a 4 hour celebrity sitter and painter. I didn’t think it would mean so much to me but I look forward to every sunday, this was ‘my’ time with the family working and schooling from home this was 100% mine. I felt like I was back at college and actually found it strange putting the pieces in for the show – they were almost like pages in a sketchbook I didn’t want to show. Lockdown for me has been a breath of fresh air, enjoying things that would normally be mundane. I would never normally stitch a portrait for my own enjoyment, this was purely through isolation. The Noel Fielding doll incorporates some of the conversation that went on in the sitting, you wouldn’t think four hours of watching paint on someone elses canvas dry would be so entertaining but it really was!

Noel Fielding portrait doll by Tina Crawford

louise anscomb

Peonies

Size:27.9x42cm

Price:£120

Painted with gouache in the month of May, ‘Peonies’ is one in a series of drawings made of plants and flowers during the lockdown period.

The small balcony at home became a sanctuary where I grew and tended to sweet peas, rosemary, daffodils, dahlias, roses and more. Despite everything happening on the ‘outside’ world and perhaps as a result of it and our changed environment, the flowers bloomed brilliantly. It felt fitting to immortalise these moments on paper, respecting at once their fragility and strength.

Anna Judge

'Little Jade'

Size:17x17cm

Price:£120

Oil painting study of a little Jade plant.

Marc Craig

Marilyn

Size:50x50cm

Price:£250

My version of the Marilyn, created using my doodles on my iPad whilst in lockdown and along with a welcome creative burst it was also very therapeutic! Here presented as a limited edition (100) canvas print, 50cm by 50cm, 4cm depth.

E.E.

'Under the sea'

Size:43x36cm

Price:£150

Acrylic and watercolour on paper
“You can imagine yourself as a mermaid going under the sea to see different types of fish. How beautiful they are.”

Sylvia Difino

Thoughts Through My Window

Size:61x61cm

Price:£100

This is painting represents my actual window at home where I’ve spent most of my time trough the lockdown during the Covid 19 Pandemic alone, far away from my family and friends and going through a breakup.
The words written are my thoughts processing the struggle of this mad and difficult period.
Mix techniques, oil, graphite and ink on canvas.

Anna Niman

'The Red Shadow'

Size:40x50cm

Price:£450

Watercolour and pencil original.
The Red Shadow, an alter ego formed and inspired through an affinity via a live Zoom session with the talented Josephine, an artist of performance and light. A moment of ethereal ascension during isolation.

A giclee print can be available for £70.

Charles Evans

Lockdown Boogie-Woogie

Size:30x39cm

Price:£150

Media: felt pen on paper.
This is one of a series of drawings I made during lockdown of energetically moving figures.

James Lythe

'There's something wrong with Ash'

Size:A4

Price:£75

Digital portrait – iconic moment in Ian Holm’s movie career

There's something wrong with Ash by James Lythe

Rhys Powell

Leo

Size:56x70

Price:£325

A realistic charcoal and white pastel drawing on mount board displayed in a light grey frame on a white mount.

Ned Handzic

'Ed'

Size:50x50cm

Price:NFS

This sketch might be titled ‘Calm Before the Storm’. Made in a Monday life drawing session organised by Rod in January of 2020, I focused entirely on the shadows. In hindsight there is foreboding in the heavy chalk marks, contrasted by the model’s calm expression.

Marios Rotsa

Self Portrait No.40

Size:A5

Price:£60

Oil painting on paper.
During lockdown I embarked on a self portrait project whereby I would paint daily.
My initial thoughts were to make a habit of it, to get familiar with oils. I wanted to create something quick and intuitive.
It has been interesting for me to see how these little paintings have evolved during this journey. With each self portrait, it gives me a direction for the next day’s self portrait.
I’m learning to be less harsh on myself and accepting of the end results.

Sarah Tille

'Ophelia of lockdown'

Size:34.5x46.5

Price:£80

Pre-lockdown I was an avid life drawing member of my local group. In lock down I needed to look to the internet for references and thanks to the amazing art community came across Chiara – a life model based in Melbourne who offered up her take on Ophelia bathing for artists around the world to re-imagine. Pre-covid if you’d told me i’d be using a model from Australia I don’t think I would have believed you!

Hasan Bolucek

Corona, little prince

Size:33x38cm

Price:£150

Watercolour, pen and coloured pencil on paper
“I was in my tiny garden reading ‘The Little Prince’ again. I decided to draw something Corona and this happened.”

A.M.Y. New Art Studio

'Dream House'

Size:33X24cm

Price:£150

Black pen on paper
This artist is a member of The New Art Studio, a unique project based in Islington that provides a therapeutic studio space for asylum seekers and refugees. www.newartstudio.org.uk
Lockdown and isolation are familiar themes for the members of The New Art Studio, who are used to living with profound restrictions. Stay at home has many different meanings and challenges depending on one’s home. Suspended time is a familiar place. During the lockdown members shared experiences on the WhatsApp group and despite physical separations, remained connected through sharing their work.

Grace Rawcliffe

Inside

Size:A3

Price:£120

Pastel life drawing

Rhys Powell

'A Chimp's Extinction'

Size:56x70cm

Price:£325

A realistic charcoal, white pastel, acrylics and copper leaf drawing on mount board displayed in a light grey frame on a white mount

Hasan Bolucek

Flow

Size:44x54cm

Price:£220

Watercolour on paper
This artist is a member of The New Art Studio, a unique project based in Islington that provides a therapeutic studio space for asylum seekers and refugees.
www.newartstudio.org.uk
Lockdown and isolation are familiar themes for the members of The New Art Studio, who are used to living with profound restrictions. Stay at home has many different meanings and challenges depending on one’s home. Suspended time is a familiar place. During the lockdown members shared experiences on the WhatsApp group and despite physical separations, remained connected through sharing their work.

Helen Jacobus

'Valentine (Zoom)'

Size:13.5x19.5cm

Price:£19

Watercolour. This watercolor sketch was made in the Life Drawing Online classes run by Adrian Dutton. The online classes on Zoom began after lockdown and not the model and the the artists take part from all over the world. Valentine modeled from Berlin, where she is based for the class on May 29, 2020. The sessions are an off-shoot from London life Drawing, the classes owned by Adrian, which are held in East London, and which have stopped for now, due to social distancing. The online classes will continue. Drawing from Zoom is not the same as drawing from life with the model in front of you, particularly as the result is dependent on the quality of the model’s camera and their skill in working in this way. The classes were also sociable, a factor which does not exist online. So although we can keep up our craft, it is very much the art of isolation.

Rod MacNeil

Spring Cleaning

Size:A5

Price:NFS

Photo, taken during a socially distanced walk in Hertfordshire. Discarded toys nervously await their fate.

Shot on Nikon D3400 with 35mm f1.8 lens. 1/250 sec at ISO110.

Farley Lobban

'The Artist'

Size:51x40cm

Price:NFS

A Portrait of the Artist
Painted in oils on canvas

Jo Holdsworth

Dreaming of the beach again today

Size:60x60cm

Price:£950

This piece is one of a series of paintings created in lockdown which were painted while desperately missing the sea. Whilst I love being in London and my life in the city, I have been yearning to see the ocean and somehow gain a bit of distance and perspective. Although my work often focuses on urban city scenes, lockdown has reestablished my desire for a connection with nature and my love for wild open spaces. I long to see the waves stretching out in front of me and a vast space of ocean leading towards the horizon.

Many of my paintings also carry a message of hope for the future and the power of shared experience – the power that you are not alone in this world but are bound together with others in the face of adversity and from which you will hopefully emerge stronger.The paintings in this series see people standing together looking far offshore. There is a sense of togetherness in their outlook and stance as they seek out new beginnings and look for the happiness ahead.

J.J.

'Horn Girl'

Size:45x56cm

Price:£500

Oil on board

E.E.

Lockdown Home

Size:43x36cm

Price:£120

Watercolour on paper
“When you are under the lockdown you just remember the home and surroundings. You can see cats and dogs walking on the street and you can see the tree is drawing your heart.”
This artist is a member of The New Art Studio, a unique project based in Islington that provides a therapeutic studio space for asylum seekers and refugees.
www.newartstudio.org.uk

Rod Kitson

'Vespa Exhaust Pipe End Can'

Size:187cc

Price:NFS

This was what gave me the original idea for the breadth and scope of the whole Art of Isolation show. I felt I was putting as much energy and intent into the refurbishment of this exhaust as I did when I made a piece of art. When I finished repacking and buttoning it up using a rivet gun (for the first time), I was really proud of the results. And I think it’s a beautiful object. I love the scrapes and scratches, the patina that tells you its age – it’s had a life. So I thought, if we take it out of its useful environment and change the context, why shouldn’t it be art?

Vespa Exhaust Pipe End Can by Rod Kitson

Debbie Lerner

Suitable for all ages in isolation

Size:45x32x10xm

Price:£800

The week prior to lockdown my dad was in hospital for a heart operation which we had been waiting many months for. As a family we knew once he was out of the hospital he would be both bored and unable to life anything heavy, so we had stock piled jigsaw puzzles to keep him busy during his recovery, as well as organising for friends and family to visit with more puzzles for him. Thankfully he came home from the hospital 2 days before lockdown but all plans for friends and family to visit had to be abandoned. As it turns out, he was not the only person who wanted to do jigsaws during lockdown. I was told by a friend that everywhere he looked online they seemed to be sold out, so I decided the only option left was for me to make him one.

This is not the original puzzle but rather one that draws on that concept as well as combining the developments in my personal painting practice from this lockdown period.

Lirona Rosenthal

'Zoom Portrait'

Size:11x14in

Price:NFS

This year I returned to drawing after a 30 years break, and started attending model drawing sessions. When the COVID-19 crises started I was hoping that drawing will be my meditative escape, yet struggled to find pleasure drawing at home. It was people that I need to draw. Participating in zoom portrait sessions provided this invaluable opportunity – it felt multi-dimensional, live. The 15 minutes timeframe for each drawing instigated one to catch the highlights of facial features and expressions. It also allowed for a quick result and an immediate satisfaction.

Portrait sessions became a main resource during lockdown. They were my time for myself, an escape from my intense life indoors. When I needed to draw and there were no zoom meetings, I drew self-portraits. I chose to submit three ink and wash samples out of a large collection of zoomed portrait drawings. I chose to note the first name of the model and the zoom session date. This reflects the COVID-19 lockdown art for me.

Jo Holdsworth

Dreaming of the sea again

Size:40 x 40 cm

Price:£750

This piece is one of a series of paintings created in lockdown which were painted while desperately missing the sea. Whilst I love being in London and my life in the city, I have been yearning to see the ocean and somehow gain a bit of distance and perspective. While my work often focuses on urban city scenes, lockdown has reestablished my desire for a connection with nature and my love for wild open spaces. I long to see the waves stretching out in front of me and a vast space of ocean leading towards the horizon.

Many of my paintings also carry a message of hope for the future and the power of shared experience – the power that you are not alone in this world and you are bound together with others in the face of adversity and will hopefully emerge stronger. The paintings in this series often see people standing together looking far offshore. There is a sense of togetherness in their outlook and stance as they seek out new beginnings and look for the happiness ahead.

Grace Rawcliffe

'Boujie'

Size:A3

Price:Expensive

Mixed media life drawing

James O’Hara

Solace

Size:30 x 40

Price:£200

iPad portrait drawing inspired by Life Model Danna. Printed on Giclee paper created at a Zoom class during lockdown.

Aggie Kubara

'(UN)REAL PRESENCES. MARY BEARD- ANTICIPATION'

Size:Digital art

Price:£100 (one colour section, print)

The artwork is digitally processed and modified traditional face study of classicist and intellectual Mary Beard (pencil drawing) who was a sitter at Sky Arts TV, Portrait Artist Of The Week show and was my lockdown discovery, inspiration and the found treasure. The creative process and academic drawing is a theme of my exploration on Identity. Mary Beard study of the face was a continuation of this drawing experiment. During the lockdown the act of drawing itself , confronting and connecting with the Other (‘s Face) had a healing power for me, was a ritual , part of mental hygiene and structured my isolation time. A sense of derealisation and common experience of trauma might paradoxically be a catalyst of a positive change and an emergence of a more mature society. Mary Beard is one of the possible, proposed by me positive icons of this Cultural Shift, from the Old BC (Before Corona) into a New Better Norm (World). The choice of colours was based on the Theory of Emotions.

(UN)REAL PRESENCES. MARY BEARD- ANTICIPATION by Aggie Kubara

Suzon Lagarde

Friends

Size:14x38cm

Price:£400

At the very beginning of lockdown I realised how important setting up a routine would be. Painting is my happy place, but blocks do happen. I set myself to start a very basic tasks: painting one little object a day for a week.
I cut (quite rudimentarily) a bit of canvas and started with the fig on the bottom right (because I’m left handed). The five still life, and my forearm tattoo, are like totems, little reminders of moments and friendships that give my strength and bring me joy.
I realised that’s one big function of my paintings, they remind me of how I felt at one time and how I decided/managed to work around my feelings.

Dan Whiteson

'Leon (20 months)'

Size:42x29.7cm

Price:NFS

My experience of lockdown has been shot through with uncertainty around my business & practise (I’m both an artist and life drawing teacher), and I’ve struggled to feel particularly creative. However, it has also been a time I shall look back on with great warmth and gratitude as it has been precious time I have shared with my young family at home. With a heavily pregnant partner and a toddler running around, it’s not exactly been relaxing, but it has been full of love and joy.
My usual work deals with the impact of modern, digital life on our physicality as human beings and the work is often clinical and distorted. These drawings are markedly different in both tone and execution from my regular practise and reflect the intimate, loving and meaningful times I have shared with the most important people in my life over the past three months.

Sarah Victoria Spence

Seeing in Sleep

Size:25x35cm

Price:£120

The piece created in Lockdown represents thoughts and feelings that came to me. Saintly figures, people long gone, a diary entry, the past in a confused dreamlike scenario that represents the uncomfortable reality of the passing of time. I needed to express the wild dreams and restless nights I have experienced over Lockdown and the anxious moments where fear and uncertainty hit me upon waking. Paint, spray paint collage, gold leaf, cardboard on acrylic paper.

Jenny Lea

'Self Portrait'

Size:25x30cm

Price:£45

Oil on canvas simple as – a self portrait as no one else was around, trying to form some empathy for all the people I have sat for. The first of hopefully many!

Solomon Grace

Jimi

Size:46x60cm

Price:£250

Oil on canvas
“Sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll. Remembering days when I was young, going to festivals, having a different lifestyle.”

louise anscomb

'The peonies'

Size:27.9x42cm

Price:£120

Painted with gouache in the month of May, ‘The peonies’ is one in a series of drawings made of plants and flowers during the lockdown period.

The small balcony at home became a sanctuary where I grew and tended to sweet peas, rosemary, daffodils, dahlias, roses and more. Despite everything happening on the ‘outside’ world and perhaps as a result of it and our changed environment, the flowers bloomed brilliantly. It felt fitting to immortalise these moments on paper, respecting at once their fragility and strength.

Inma Garcia-Carrasco

Confinada

Size:80x60cm

Price:£700

Since I was for weeks and weeks in lockdown by myself I started to look into painting myself. I paint the nude figure more often than anything else so I found the courage to paint myself nude. It’s been a fulfilling experience as it’s full of exposure and fragility which had to be overcome in the process of painting.

James O’Hara

'Solace'

Size:30x40cm

Price:£200

iPad drawing inspired by life model Danna during a Zoom class in lockdown. Printed on Giclee paper.

Claire Godfree

Wren

Size:10 x14 Cm

Price:N/A

Wren made from coop choc ice box . Part of lockdown project to make a sculpture a day from one piece of cardboard packaging. Glue and black pen the only additional things allowed in the self imposed rules .
As a teacher and mum my own art has been on the back burner for too long . Lockdown was an externally imposed break from the normal routine . I think I have proved to myself that I am more focused than I had thought. I love the discipline of having to make each day and the problem solving aspect of having to use what is to hand .

john pipal

'Youth'

Size:A3

Price:£100

portrait of young woman
painting in acrylics on A3 140gsm recycled white cartridge
30 minute painting done on the online #draweachother zoom meetup on wednesday evenings run by me (#johnpipal) and mark lovelace (#mark_lovelace)

Pipo Chiu

#DrawEachOther

Size:A3

Price:£65

Isolation Art: One could argue that art is generally produced in isolation. You kind of need that space to express ramifications of the mind & heart. Yet this enforced isolation felt like a prison on the soul. Thank goodness for the internet, where we could still meet up in Zoom, and resume some normality. Weekly sessions of portrait drawing each other gave a sense of human connection and community beyond geography. Normal people volunteering to sit still for 15mins, and as my colour pencil scratches the surface of paper I soon start to wonder what they’re thinking, or feeling in the midst of a global pandemic lockdown, which turns out to last nearly 4 months. I am grateful for the simple friendships and hope my drawings do justice to their resilience.

Mehmet Arslan

'Big Lie'

Size:35x45cm

Price:£300

Pencil, watercolour, dry colour on paper
“For me, Corona is capitalism or big companies designing the world.”
This artist is a member of The New Art Studio, a unique project based in Islington that provides a therapeutic studio space for asylum seekers and refugees.
www.newartstudio.org.uk

Sally Eldars

Under Pressure

Size:46x38cm

Price:£450

Shirley Cheung

'Sun Patch'

Size:31x39cm

Price:£150

Woodcut Print.
I went around my flat to find sun patches throughout the day and stayed in those warm spaces for brief meditations.
I found this image of a kitten bathing in a sun patch, longing to explore the world outside. It had encapsulated how I felt about the lockdown at the time.

Josie Deighton

Laetitia

Size:12.5 x 11

Price:£200

This is a painting from a 2 min drawing of Leatitia Bouffard-Roupe, a ballerina based in Spain. Due to lockdown and life drawing moving online, we have been able to work with models all over the world. I cherish this i hope it continues even after normal service resumes.
I often work from drawings that i have made while teaching, or at least from fast or movement based classes.

Jacqui Hamer

'How do you like your blue eyed boy Mister Death'

Size:39.25 x 49.5 cm

Price:£500

A pixelated President and his clowns.
Words fail me….
Oil on hardboard.

How do you like your blue eyed boy Mister Death by Jacqui Hamer

Greg Harris

The Valley Girl

Size:37x46cm

Price:£50

A portrait in Oils of an American lady who studying in the UK, inspired somewhat by the portraiture of Kyffin Williams, whose work I love. That style felt like a good fit, Williams being a painter from the Welsh Valleys and the sitter being from the San Fernando Valley (okay maybe a very tenious link but they’re both Valleys, I guess). Painted from a photo reference they sent during lockdown, as of course access to life models is limited given the circumstances. Incidentally the wall they posed against had “nowhere better than this place” written on it in biro, which is appropriate when isolated at home is the safest place to be.

Sarah Tille

'The quiet of the night'

Size:46x65cm

Price:NFS

When in lock down and your delivery is not quite what you expected yet yields some fun results. Black sugar paper arrived instead of white and a whole suite of black and white portraits emerged during lock down – something I don’t think I’d have ever even tried before! Drawn using chalk and charcoal the face of this child really summed up some of that nervous anticipation and anxiety, and the unknown fears we all faced during Covid 19.

Ashley Loxton

Lacadidas

Size:28x28cm

Price:£95

I have been rigorously churning out works on paper, most of which are tightly rendered pieces; all part of a repetitive process. For a number of years I’ve been using found imagery and material, either to form part of the painting itself or as a surface to work upon. This small work on a book page was intended as an experiment or study from memory, to mimic some of the iconic yet sometimes banal symbols that I’ve been bombarded with from a very young age. For me this was momentary catharsis- a break from the familiar processes of painting, and my own subtle reflection on the magnetism of branding especially during time in Lockdown.

Vanya Marinova

'The Woman Thames'

Size:46x54cm

Price:£150

The River Thames has always been a great Inspiration to me. What I extracted from her energy through the years was the importance of not underestimating her power and to have respect for her. With painting her in a woman’s shape, I aimed at making her message more accessible. I do think she is a very special river indeed!

S.K.

Maze 1

Size:34x34cm

Price:£150

Ink on paper
“Feeling no way out, everyone in the same boat of hopelessness.”
“To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.”

Michael Riddle

'Lockdown beard & dreams of spindle legged dogs and dancing aliens'

Size:25x20cm

Price:NFS

In lockdown, as my hair and beard grew I looked in the mirror and I saw myself looking more mad eyed and wild. I was in isolation because of the immune suppressing drugs I had to take and my dreams became more vivid, real and mad. This is very different from normal portraits that I have shown but I just wanted to paint like when I was a kid, letting it happen and making it up as I went along. I had a lot of fun and I haven’t seen the aliens for a while since I cut off my beard.

Lockdown beard & dreams of spindle legged dogs and dancing aliens by Michael Riddle

Molly Skinner

Days Spent Under the Skylight

Size:49cm x 39.5cm

Price:N/A

A self-portrait depicting an appreciation of sunlight during a time of isolation. Oil paint on cardboard.

Helen Jacobus

'Pandee and Chittesh (Zoom)'

Size:33.5x15.5

Price:£17

This is a pencil drawing of father and son (Pandee and Chittesh) who attend the Draw Each Other’s Portraits weekly sessions on Zoom, hosted by John Pipal and Mark Lovelace. This was a 15 minute pose and I enjoyed drawing them. Before lockdown, the weekly online sessions were held in a pub, Royal Inn on the Park, in Hackney, East London. Since then they have been held online, attracting people from all over the country, and abroad, to take part. I have been this class for a few years. At first, it was difficult to adjust to drawing people’s portraits via Zoom, which works best if the sitters have a good camera, which in this case they did. Hats off to John and Mark for keeping the class (which is free) going. We appreciate it and are grateful to them.

Pandee and Chittesh (Zoom) by Helen Jacobus

Jessica Sheehan

My own social isolation

Size:42xm x 29.7 cm (A3)

Price:£170

This is a completely new style I experimented in for lockdown. Oils painted with a palette knife (and occasionally one or two paintbrushes).

I was inspired by what life drawing might be in COVID.

Rod Kitson

'Selfie Isolation'

Size:30x30cm

Price:NFS

My recent portraits have all been from life, and like many artists, the first thing I did when faced with a drought of real faces to paint was to turn to the mirror and do a self portrait. At the early stage of the virus crisis when this was done face masks were as rare as hen’s teeth, but I had a couple of masks someone had given me to ride my bike through the Rotherhithe tunnel to combat the smog. More people asked about where I got the mask than they did about the actual painting!
Wearing the mask was an obvious device for showing where we were at that time. In a technical sense it also allowed me to focus all my attention on the top half of the face and I went further with the detail around the eyes than I had previously.
Oil on canvas.

Tina Crawford

Akram Khan stitched portrait

Size:30x50cm

Price:NFS

During isolation I’ve been working on a large scale project about lockdown highlights, my lockdown highlight has been Sky Arts Portrait Artist TV show being live every week with a 4 hour celebrity sitter and painter. I didn’t think it would mean so much to me but I look forward to every sunday, this was ‘my’ time with the family working and schooling from home this was 100% mine. I felt like I was back at college and actually found it strange putting the pieces in for the show – they were almost like pages in a sketchbook I didn’t want to show. Lockdown for me has been a breath of fresh air, enjoying things that would normally be mundane. I would never normally stitch a portrait for my own enjoyment, this was purely through isolation. The embroidery of Akram Khan, I even worked in a different way I don’t draw beforehand when I stitch, its needle in – but it was nearly just a drawing so you can see pencil marks.

Don Greenwood

'Strippers of London'

Size:70x50cm

Price:Offers

Online Strippers Collective doing figure drawing Meetup during lockdown.
Drawing with pencil and Colour Pencil and graphite.

Marios Rotsa

Sofie

Size:A4

Price:£120

Painting, Gouache and watercolour on toned paper.
I’m missing life drawing so much. I used an old life drawing of Sofie as a reference to recreate this piece.

Cat Coulter

'Did I have a hand in this?'

Size:32.5x45

Price:£100

I made this cyanograph using discarded plastic waste as part of a series of works raising awareness of marine pollution. The current crisis is now also adding to the problem. This image is also informed by the intense claustrophobia and isolation of lockdown. Time is suspended. The mood is deep blue. I need to get out more.

Did I have a hand in this? by Cat Coulter

Woody Gray

Homemade Toys

Size:30x30x30cm

Price:NFS

‘This is Mr Snookles from Trolls, a Minion and a Peekachoo. I made them in lockdown with my Mum. I felt butterflies in my tummy when I made them. Minion and Peckachoo are made from a cushion cover. Mr Snookles is made from my underpants because we couldn’t find any other green material to use. My Dad made a Santa but it was too hard because he used glue and thread and his eye fell off’ Woody Gray 5 years old Rotherhithe

Sarah Victoria Spence

'View from my window'

Size:30x60cm

Price:£350

The work was created in response to lockdown. It depicts a view from downstairs into my garden. My daughter and her dog are there. The larger figure is a self-portrait with veins and arteries that are the routes I used to take with my running group. My much-loved dog died within the first days of lockdown; she is in the picture as a pale image mirroring my daughter’s dog. I miss her and the walks we did together. The Covid Bird speaks for itself. The white spaces or divisions are suggestive of isolation and solitude. Paint, collage, gold leaf, pastel, fine liner on box canvas.

View from my window by Sarah Victoria Spence

Sayed Hashumi

A Little Break

Size:Film – 25secs

Price:NFS

“Waiting for work, no business, getting bored.”
This artist is a member of The New Art Studio, a unique project based in Islington that provides a therapeutic studio space for asylum seekers and refugees.

Marios Rotsa

'Untitled'

Size:A3

Price:£275

Part of a series I’m hoping to develop and evolve. Exploring overlapping figures, negative spaces and compositions. Inspired by Schiele and Klimt.

Jonathan Chan

Self Portrait As Thug

Size:36x25cm

Price:£250

The lockdown for me has been punctuated by episodes of low mood. I had my head shaved by my partner partly out of necessity due to closed hair dressers and partly due to sheer boredom. I caught myself in a mirror later that day: It was the first time I had ever seen my scalp, and combined with a heavy frown due to lockdown-blues, the person in the mirror was completely unrecognisable. Presented with this new sense of identity, I felt compelled to paint what I saw.

Lee Phaik Kee

'Lockdown lock-up lookout'

Size:50X45cm

Price:£280

It was the view through my window on the first floor. Lockdown was announced at the beginning of spring and was followed by my flight suspension. I conveyed the feeling of isolation through my own colour palette.

Lockdown lock-up lookout by Lee Phaik Kee

Gary Bricklebank

Angela, Listening

Size:50x50cm

Price:£200

I made this painting from a sketch I drew during a portrait drawing session in Horniman Gardens at the end of May. It was my first “live” meet up since before Lockdown started. We made sure to keep safe social distancing.
Angela seems not to be “posing for the artist”, it’s a private moment, laying on the grass, feeling the warm breeze of the evening, & listening to music. Her hair, her features, her clothes, the wires……. everything is in the line. She is in her own space. We all are.

Menna Bishop

'Untitled'

Size:20x60cm

Price:NFS

Sal Jones

Being a Man

Size:40x40cm

Price:£600

‘Being A Man’, Oil on canvas, 40 x 40 cm, 2020

This oil painting was in progress at my studio leading up to lockdown. It was the first piece I completed at home once the lockdown meant I no longer had access to the studio.

My paintings are an attempt to capture the action of expression out of context whilst transforming the stereotypical portrait. Although my image source is usually a photograph I am not trying to create a photo-realist work in any way but rather a re-interpretation of that photo as a painting. I am interested in exploring what happens to the image through the process of applying the paint. I have been incorporating text into some of my recent paintings. The text adds another element to consider, another clue to the reading of the work, and invites us to think about how we interpret image and language.

J.J.

'Gypsy Girl'

Size:45x56cm

Price:£450

Oil on board
(New Art Studio)

Kelly Frank

Fear

Size:63x56cm

Price:£80

Never before has we lived in an age where information can spread as it does now. News, opinions and commentary blend into one. The notion of truth is novel. These charcoal drawings are taken from a collection of sources regarding the events and affects of Covid-19. With the sea of information regarding the virus changing daily, these drawings portray the confusion and dismay we face as our world turns upside down. It begs the question, Does truth really matter?

S.K.

'Maze 2 Day 46'

Size:33x25cm

Price:£150

Ink on paper
“Feeling trapped, the same state of mind.”
“Day 46: Before you speak, let your words pass through three gates. At the first gate, ask yourself ‘Is it true?’ At the second gate ask ‘Is it necessary?’ At the third gate ask ‘Is it kind?’

Marios Rotsa

Self Portrait Day 50 - No.50

Size:A6

Price:£60

Oil painting on paper.
This is self portrait No.50, part of my self portrait project whereby I paint daily. I plan to create 365 of them.
All of them are quick little oil sketches alla prima, no preparation sketch with charcoal or graphite just pure intuitive strokes.

Jaime Isaac Ingram

'Mamá y yo en el parque'

Size:15x21cm

Price:£100

Paint made with water colours by my 6 y/o son Jaime during first weeks of lockdown. He describes it as “Mom and I at the park”

Mamá y yo en el parque by Jaime Isaac Ingram

Vanya Marinova

The Sky Is My Limit

Size:46x57cm

Price:£150

I live in a basement apartment and, at the beginning of the lockdown, I was slightly worried how I would endure a life of less going out. Drawing and painting helped a great deal here, and this is what my artwork portrays!

Art of Isolation // Catalogue

Bertie Dixon

Juliano: Raw and naked angst from Brasil

Josh Kitson

'Sourdough Loaf'

Lirona Rosenthal

Zoom portrait

Ned Handzic

'Zoom mix'

James O’Hara

Naked Neon Anna

JL Maxcy

'Because I Can't Hug You'

Tom Donaldson

Self Portrait with a Tired Toddler

Solomon Grace

'Brad'

Alice Pipal

Sunset

NED HANDZIC

'Boris'

Jonathan Ambrose

Zoom Man

PAM FROST

'Orange Man'

Anna Savva

Pink plant

Clive Dolphin

'Floating Indigos'

Jim Collett

Koi pond, Sensō-ji Temple

Sarah Victoria Spence

'Let's go outside'

Claire Godfree

Cinnamon Phoenix

Sayed Hashumi

'Unreachable'

Agata Michalczak

Matryoshka

Ayse

'Lap Top Lives'

Gavin Nicholls

Self isolation portrait 1

Lisha Yin

'Portraits Zoom'

Masi

Always Together

Thuyha Nguyen

'Peony'

Cat Coulter

No Margin for Error? Lines on Lockdown.

Sylvie Pipal

'Bird and Baby's'

Sayed Hashumi

Surviving

Jonathan Small

'Car'

Marc Craig

Mona Lisa

Gordon Stewart

'House in Javea'

Gordon Stewart

Oare Marshes

Tania Kaczynski

'Homage to Brian Wilson'

Charles Evans

Untitled

Charlotte E Padgham

'Remnant V II 8'

Mathew Tudor

Madonna After Mantegna. May 2020

Mary Collett

'Silver and gold pendant'

Grace Rawcliffe

Zooming

Joe Barrow

'Alone in the dolls house'

Claire Godfree

Glass of beer

Clive