We did say we should do this, maybe not every day, more often than not though, there can never be too much art on these pages.

So then, a simple thing, just an almost daily slice of the art posted (no way am I committing to doing it every day, I’m busy making art). Some days it might be a piece of art from someone we’ve been regularly covering on the pages (and maybe working with in terms of Cultivate), other days it might be something by an (almost) household name, on other days it might be a piece of art by someone who work we hadn’t known until the day we posted it, Today we feature a painting, another painting from an artist we’ve featured rather a lot in recent years on these pages.

This is a new Hetty Douglas painting, we assume it is, she just posted it on her Instagram feed, I guess it could have been around a while? It isn’t dated, it does look and feel like a new one, I certainly haven’t seen it before…

There are no size details, most of Hetty’s work tends to be relative big in terms of size (and intent), I do like her raw, emotionally-charged work, her positively-charged mess, her use of colour, her instincts. She just said of the piece “admitted we were powerless over (instead here) and that our lives had become unmanageableee…”. Maybe it is an older piece or maybe she’s just returned to the use of text, something that featured in her earlier work more than it has recently? Personally I don’t tend to like text as part of painting, I think if you need to do it then the painting hasn’t work, there are of course exceptions…

There’s a bit of an interview and some background on the London-based artist (b1992) here via the Overground website and well that really is all this series of Slice of Art pages are going to be about, just a simple post featuring a piece of art…

Previously…

ORGAN: Today’s Slice Of Art (Part 1) – Madeleine Strindberg’s Departure…

ORGAN: Our best art shows of 2025, who excited? Ron Athey and Hermes Pittakos, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, David Hepher, Hetty Douglas, Geneva Jacuzzi, Lauren Halsey, A Gesture, An Action, Alexandre Diop, Brandon Ndife, Jennifer Binnie and…

ORGAN THING: More Hetty Douglas paintings, this time back to East London’s Haricot Gallery, her Miracle State and…

ORGAN THING: Hetty Douglas and Katie Eraser’s Flesh and Time at Bomb Factory’s Shoreditch space, these are paintings alive with raw personality…

ORGAN THING: and upstairs there’s a couple of rather big, rather ambitious, rather alive, rather exciting Hetty Douglas paintings that really do stand out…