Thirteen Questions From Organ. The idea is simple, an ongoing series of thirteen questions sent out to people who’s creativity we’re rather admiring and enjoying at the moment – artists, musicians, film makers, cake testers and who knows who…

23: YASMIN GRANT – 13 QUESTIONS FROM ORGAN: Yasmin Grant’s studio revealed a space alive with rich colour, with warm yellows, with lusciously painted golds, rich dark browns, deep dark blues that are… London-based artist Yasmin Grant and her very powerful paintings first came to our attention sometime in the middle of 2023, those first encounters were, as is so often the case, on-line. Images explored and then words exchanged and a need to see more, to see the work, To see the art in real life, yo… read on

22: SADIE HENNESSY – 13 QUESTIONS FROM ORGAN: Ahead of the 2023 Art Car Boot Fair, Sadie Hennessy is the latest participating artist to take on those Thirteen Questions… – The countdown clock on the Art Car Boot Fair website says we’re only 18 days from this year’s live event on Saturday September 16th at London’s kings Cross. Ahead of the much anticipated event, one of the highlights of any London art year, we’re inviting participating artists to take on our Thirteen Questions and the latest Artist to respond is another Fair regular Sadie Hennessy, I could write an introduction and talk of Sadie’s games of tennis or her Boyfriend Auditions or those tempting fat balls but ChatGPT seems to have done the job for us. … Read on

21: SUSIE HAMILTON – 13 QUESTIONS FROM ORGAN: Ahead of the 2023 Art Car Boot Fair, painter Susie Hamilton takes on those Thirteen Questions… – Susie Hamilton’s paintings have been rewarding us for a number of years now, she’s taken part in several of our Cultivate shows, there’s something about her use of paint, the energy in her work, the things she sees, the way she communicates, the economy of it all. Here then as Susie’s thirteen answers…  Read on

20: TWINKLE TROUGHTON – 13 QUESTIONS FROM ORGAN: Twinkle Troughton is a rather fine painter, her work is inspired by both the personal and the political, there’s a bite that isn’t always obvious – Twinkle Troughton is an artist, a painter currently living and working in Margate. Using oil and solvents on paper to create luminosity and form through corrosion and decay,  her work is inspired by both the personal and the political.  A love of storytelling and for nature, and a strong connection to… Read on

19: MELIKE – 13 QUESTIONS FROM ORGAN: Melike is a rather exciting painter, a rather pro-active mixed media artist… – Melike is a rather exciting painter, a rather pro-active mixed media artist, born in Samsun, Turkey, in 1980, an artist now firmly based in Istanbul. We’ve been aware of… read on

18: EDGINGTON – 13 QUESTIONS FROM ORGAN: The largely autobiographical work of Edgington, his bold mark making, his line, a Birmingham-based painter who’s exciting us right now… – The 13 Questions thing again, the artist who likes to be known as Edgington this time. Edgington (b.1991) is a Midlands of England artist making “largely autobiographical works… read on

17: MILLY ABURROW – 13 QUESTIONS FROM ORGAN: Milly Aburrow and her uncanny sculptures, her installations of the everyday mundane, her cake and crisps and… – I can’t quite remember how we found Milly and her rather enticing food now, she might have approached us via a Cultivate open call or she may have passed our way via her social media feeds and her Seduce Me cakes – that’s kind of how it works these days, if you’re out there and… Read on

16: SARAH JONES – 13 QUESTIONS FROM ORGAN: Artist Sarah Jones and her recently discovered deep love of posts – Artist Sarah Jones has been busy making posts, making art with posts, making art out of posts, there’s something very spiritual about her posts, I feel a great need to quietly walk around one of her posts, I love the way the they just stand there in the sunshine, I love the tactile qualities… read on

15: JULIA MADDISON – 13 QUESTIONS FROM ORGAN: What has artist Julia Maddison made today? What is that white horse doing there? A road movie? – The Thirteen Questions thing again. This time the twelve generic questions, as well as that special thirteenth one, have been fired at an artist who’s ever evolving work and attitude towards her work we have been enjoying for a good few years now… read on

14: LIDIA LIDIA – 13 QUESTIONS FROM ORGAN: Ahead of Mixtape, who is Lidia Lidia? Who is Baglady? Who… – Who is Lidia Lidia? Who is Baglady? We should have asked Lidia who Mr Bones is? Lidia Lidia has taken part in a number of Cultivate exhIbitions and events now, we probably first came… read on

13: PERDITA SINCLAIR – 13 QUESTIONS FROM ORGAN: Perdita Sinclair’s paintings are alive with appeal, with deceptively soft ice creamy colour, there’s an undertone though… – Perdita Sinclair is a painter based in Brighton, Southern England, she has taken part in a number of the more recent Cultivate on-line exhibitions, including Saturation, she currently has a solo exhbition on at Brighton’s Phoenix Art Space that runs until 20th February 2022. Perdita’s paintings are alive with appeal, with deceptively soft ice creamy… read on

12: JEREMY MORGAN – 13 QUESTIONS FROM ORGAN: Jeremy Morgan has a beautiful way with a line, a delicious sense of colour, his clean-cut style excites… –  Jeremy Morgan is a painter and graphic designer based in Oxford, he has a beautiful way with a line, a delicious sense of colour, his clean-cut style excites, there’s warmth to his cool, to his rather fluid paintings, Jeremy has taken part in a number of the more recent Cultivate on-line exhibitions, indeed he’s part… read on

11: GIRL SHIT – 13 QUESTIONS FROM ORGAN: The artist known as Girl Shit… Fresh from taking part in Cultivate’s #43Artists show |(an on-line hosted here on on these Organ pages of course) the fine artist known at Girl Shit is the latest to be subjected to our Thirteen Question interrogation. Now just like a real life superhero (and who’s to say Girl Shit isn’t a real life…

10: JOHN GATHERCOLE – 13 QUESTIONS FROM ORGAN: Painter John Gathercole’s turn – there’s a prolificness to his current body of work, an almost rapid evolution, an excitement…    – Now then, fresh from the recent Nothing is Square pt.2 show and on the eve of the latest Cultivate group show, a collection of artists, painters, sculptors, do’ers and such, a show called Insert (Title Here) at East London’s Shipton Street Gallery, we subjected painter John Gathercole to our ongoing Thirteen Questions thing… “John Gathercole…

9: SAL JONES: 13 QUESTIONS FROM ORGAN: This time we fire them at figurative oil painter Sal Jones ahead of her appearance at the Nothing is Square show… – Part nine of an occasional series. Ahead of the opening of the Nothing is Square Pt.2 group show next Thursday evening (Thursday evening being February 27th and the place being Shipton Street Gallery, just off Columbia Road, East London) we invited painter, London-based figurative oil painter if we must put more of a label…

8: SOFIA MARTINS-GRAY: 13 QUESTIONS FROM ORGAN: Sofia Martins-Gray is an artist, a painter, she paints with her camera, she paints beautifully with her camera  – Sofia Martins-Gray is an artist, a painter, she paints with her camera, she paints beautifully with her camera, Sofia regularly exhibits around London, she was recently a guest artist at… 

7: YULIA ROBINSON: 13 QUESTIONS FROM ORGAN: Yulia Robinson, she’s an exciting painter, something about the energy in the marks she makes… Yulia Robinson is an exciting painter, something about the energy in the marks she makes, the colour she uses, the ambition in her paint, the spontaneity, her blowing and read on

6: CARNE GRIFFITHS:  13 QUESTIONS FROM ORGAN: Ahead of the Leytonstone Arts Trail, the natural flow of artist Carne Griffiths… Today, ahead of the Leytonstone Arts Trail, and his own show that’s part of this year’s…

5: NAOMI EDMONDSON – 13 QUESTIONS FROM ORGAN: The street art of Naomi Edmondson and her beautiful Survival Techniques…  Naomi is a graphic designer and wall painter, an ex-pro freestyle skier, a London cyclist and beautiful wordsmith, we knew her work long before we know who was responsible for the striking work on London walls –   “Survival Techniques is a legal street art project that aims to promote hope and optimism and bring a little light to people having a dark day.work”. The first wall she painted and the first we saw of her work was down by the canal in East London on the edges of Hackney Wick…

4: AIDA WILDE –  13 QUESTIONS FROM ORGAN: Aida Wilde, demonic Print maker… – Aida Wilde is a defiant artist, a “demonic Print-maker”, an East London survivor. It is mostly about survival right now, her curating and pulling together of things in terms of the Lord Napier pub and what happened on the walls over there in Hackney Wick last year really was one of the best things that…

3: EMMA HARVEY – 13 QUESTIONS FROM ORGAN: The delicious circles of painter Emma Harvey…  – The third episode in a series of thirteen questions, Thirteen Questions From Organ. This time a little closer to homewith thirteen questions for English artist Emma Harvey, a painter mostly (and co-curator of those Cultivate events of course), Emma’s circle paintings are turning heads right now… read on

2: ESPIRA –  13 QUESTIONS FROM ORGAN: The raw meat of artist Espira – Who is Espira? Answering that question really isn’t that easy, information is thin on the ground, he’s one of those artists who doesn’t say much about his rather intriguing art, that isn’t necessarily a bad thing, a bit of… read on

1: KIM LEUTWYLER –  13 QUESTIONS FROM ORGAN: Kim Leutwyler… – Kim Leutwyler is a painter who we’ve been admiring for some time, her beautifu use of colour,  her delightfully human pieces, her celebrations of people… read on