* Bust of Costanza Bonarelli, Bernini

(Circa 1630’s)

What could be more beautiful .

*John Currin, incredulous images

‘The Teenagers’ (2008)

* Wilhelm Freddie, Triumphant functions of the feminine psyche (1936)

*Antony Williams, the coolness of being near another warm person

Like Wyeth and Freud, William’s compositional arrangements of detached figures delivered with subtly exaggerated marks make our encounters with his subjects highly intimate, yet austere.

*Susanne Kühn, dreaming in colour

Stunning imagery. I really love the contrast between the architecture and the body, combined with the focused expressions worn by the figures. Kühn’s pictorial repertoire deserves the attention that her fellow German figurative contemporaries have received!

*Oscar Mellor, concrete softness

Mellor’s dreamlike imagery is sensually uncanny

*John Baldessari, fractured figuration

I’ve always been intrigued by Baldessari’s pop-like aesthetic, mingled with bleakly romantic figurative gestures.

*Ridley Howard, banal love and other queries

I love how charged Howard’s images are while so simplistic

*Matthew Cerletty, Ambivalent Beauty

Isolation, longing, indifference..Cerletty’s imagery convicts us of our own loneliness

*James Rielly, two-gaze

I am so curious about artists such as Rielly, with whom I share an affinity for double-renderings of people.