29th September 2026 I 3-5 minute read
A Year of Discovery
Meet some of the artists who have joined the Clarendon portfolio this year.
One of the greatest pleasures of collecting art is discovering something new. Over the past year, we’ve welcomed a diverse group of artists to Clarendon, each bringing a distinctive approach and individual creative vision to our galleries. Here are some of the names we think you’ll want to know…
JAMES KERR
Colour without compromise
James Kerr is known for his bold, colour-rich expressive artworks, which are informed by a lifelong engagement with art and the great modernists of the 20th century.
Painting intuitively in oils, he builds and disrupts layers of impasto, scraping back and reworking the surface as each composition evolves. The result is an assured interplay of colour, form and texture, giving each work a painterly depth and presence.
Nature reconstructed
Photography, digital collage and traditional craftsmanship collide in Teis Albers’ richly layered floral works. Beginning with flowers that he photographs himself, he then builds his complex works using materials including metallic pigments, charcoal, textured gels and diamond dust, giving a contemporary edge to the grand tradition of Dutch floral art.
Shifting horizons
Born on Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast, Stiliana Alexieva creates luminous seascapes on aluminium, using its reflective qualities to bring an additional dimension to her work. As light moves across the metallic surface, colour and tone subtly shift, introducing a dynamic quality and heightening the sense of energy and movement.
Distilling the moment
For Magdalena Morey, landscape is less about recording a place than capturing the experience of being there. Drawing on her early training in artistic textiles, she layers acrylic, pastel and mixed media to create tactile, atmospheric paintings inspired by the dramatic landscape and changing light of northern Spain.
Wishes welcome
Victorian engravings, antique maps, exotic creatures and abundant botanicals can all be found in the fantastical worlds of Kristjana S Williams. Her complex and beautiful collages have won her her commissions from Coldplay, Fortnum & Mason, the V&A and the Vatican Library.
Radical simplicity
James Joyce reduces the signs, symbols and visual noise of contemporary life to bold images with a deceptively simple graphic language that captures the zeitgeist with wit and immediacy. His work has been exhibited at the Royal Academy, and his Perseverance in the Face of Absurdity featured as the seminal image for Banksy’s Dismaland.
Fragments of beauty
For Amelia Humber, landscape is as much an emotional experience as a physical place. Inspired by the British wilderness and the expressive tradition of artists including J.M.W. Turner, she uses oil, pastel and graphite to capture its fleeting moods, from shifting light and expansive skies to gathering storms and moments of stillness.
Landscape and memory
From rural Cheshire to the North Wales coast, Sam Rudd gathers sketches and observations before allowing memory and imagination to take over in the studio. Charcoal, acrylic and oils come together in her expressive, semi-abstract landscapes filled with spontaneous marks, rich texture and an infectious sense of colour and movement.
Pop art, pixel by pixel
Look closely. Oli Arshinov’s vibrant images are constructed from hundreds of individually hand-painted cubes assembled on brushed aluminium. Move around them and the composition shifts before your eyes, transforming familiar icons of popular culture into playful three-dimensional works of wall art.
COMING SOON…
Our search for exceptional new talent continues, with two international artists set to join the Clarendon portfolio before the end of the year.
ALESSANDRO CASSETTI
Natural forces
Alessandro Cassetti uses industrial paints and gravity to create abstract surfaces that crack, fracture and transform as they dry. Resembling parched earth, ancient rock formations or worlds seen beneath a microscope, these richly textured works blur distinctions between the geological and the organic, revealing unexpected patterns within seemingly natural processes.
BRAD ROBSON
Beyond the likeness
Australian artist Brad Robson approaches portraiture as an exploration of memory, identity and cultural connection. Working in oils with blades, squeegees and other unconventional tools, he fragments and reconstructs familiar faces, moving beyond physical likeness to explore our emotional response to the icons who shape our collective memory.
We are continually seeking out exceptional artists to bring to Clarendon so there is always something new to encounter; a fresh perspective, an unexpected idea or a work to fall in love with.
Because part of the pleasure of collecting art is never quite knowing what you might discover next.