The now and again Five Pieces of Art thing feature once again. Well why not? Again and again (and again and again), all this art flowing past on various feeds or wrapped up in press releases or jumping off actual gallery walls or wrapping chips or passing on the side of those Whitechapel white vans. So we ask (again) why not five pieces of art every couple of weeks or so alongside everything else that appears on these fractured pages on a daily basis? Can you think of one good reason why not to? Well besides the time involved and the this and the that and the dancing around and the skins on the tins of paint and the man at the door…
Five pieces of art then, a semi regular feature, just five pieces of art that have passed our way in the last few days, nothing more (or less) than that. Nothing really to do with an upcoming show or anything else (although maybe they are), just a simple, semi regular five pieces of art feature. Let’s do it again…
1: Erraid Gaskell is a rather radient painter recently brough to our attention by London/Aldeburgh-based Thomson Galleries who said; “Erraid is a rising British artist whose paintings weave together memory, folklore, and a deep connection to nature. Born in 1997 and raised between Scotland, Bangladesh, and Australia, Erraid’s global upbringing infuses her work with a rich cultural tapestry. A graduate of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design (2020), she layers translucent and opaque colour to conjure dreamlike landscapes alive with texture and mythic atmosphere. Inspired by the wilds of Scotland and the stories that inhabit them, Erraid’s paintings capture both the grandeur and the quiet mystery of the natural world – marking her as an exciting young voice in contemporary landscape painting”.
Explore more here via Thompson Galeries or via www.erraidgaskellart.co.uk
2: Sterling Ruby and who knows who the kid who gets it is or indeed who took the photo (or when). Always got time for a Sterling Ruby painting, I’m with the kid, excellent painting and brilliant photograph, what more needs to be said?
3: Moich Abrahams – “Work in progress in a rather cold studio! Working on lots of new paintings recently!!” said a well wrapped up artist in his London studio on the last Friday of January 2026. Explore more via his website
4: Deborah Grice – Now we’re not fans of art prizes and the idea of art as a competition, and especially not fans of art prizes that demand artists pay a cash-cow flavoured enterance fee just to be part of some half-arse on-line selection process, but this Deborah Grice painting Safehold did just catch an eye as winner of the John Moores Painting Prize 2025 Visitors’ Choice Award.
5: David Hepher – I’ve avoided really exploring David Hepher’s process as well as his thoughts on his own work for so long now, preferring instead to let those grand pieces do all the talking that the concrete and those tower blocks do. The algorithm does keep throwing this You Tube piece at me though and I can no longer resist…
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