A Geography of Colour

Aaron Kudi is a contemporary painter, born in Bauchi, Nigeria, he lives and works in London. He grew up between Nigeria and London and Devon in the UK. He has a BSc in Psychology from London Metropolitan University, an MSc in Psychology from University College London and worked as a sculptor before becoming a painter. Aaron has undertaken residencies at Thread, Josef & Anni Albers Foundation, Sene...

Jo Hummel is a contemporary British painter who lives and works on the Isle of Wight. She trained at the Royal College of Art and has established an international exhibition profile across the UK, Europe, the United States and South Africa. Her work is rooted in reductionism, using symbols and sacred geometry and engages with ancient spiritual concepts such as Sunya, the Sanskrit term for void and...

A special edition of ‘A Geography of Colour’ podcast with painter Katrina Blannin, talking about colour and painting with Ruth Philo, from the Sluice Expo 'World Buidling' in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland with LungA School, originally broadcast on Seyðisfjörður Community Radio, May 2025. Katrina Blannin was born in London, UK where she currently lives and works. Since graduating from the Royal College of...

Ruth Calland is a contemporary British painter, and also a Jungian analyst, ilving and working in London. Emergence and attunement to what is emergent, are the experiences that engage her. She has a deep interest in alchemy, which provides a framework for how she thinks about painting as process. She will often utilise two different points of reference and see them as creating an interactive field...

Mallory Page is a contemporary American painter, based in New Orleans. Mallory’s paintings employ multiple layers and hues of acrylic wash that cascade across large scaled canvas. Her interests lie in the study of the psyche, dreams and the subconscious.  She often tethers psychic sensations or observations to build work about creating deeper interactions with the sublime. Mallory was raised in La...

Charley Peters is a contemporary British painter, who lives and works in London. She makes paintings where abstract language and screen aesthetics collide, remixing familiar motifs from art history, retro gaming, and internet culture. Charley explores contemporary painting as an expanded practice that is both physical and virtual, and not limited to the surface of a canvas. Although essentially ab...

Marius von Brasch is German-British painter who lives and works on the Isle of Wight. His work highlights the power of unconscious filters that shape perception. Imagination, affects and memories, which pervade social life, history and the life of the soul, play a significant role in the emergence of each painting and work on paper. Marius’s practice aims to translate these layers and their differ...

Jenny is a Contemporary British painter, writer and lecturer based in the North West of England. Emerging from a process of close making and the complex relationship between two active objects of being, Jenny’s paintings embody the potential for visual and psychological oscillation. In this exchange between painter and painting, the process arrives at curious and insubstantial 'part-objects', simu...

This month on 'A Geography of Colour' podcast I am talking with painter Elizabeth Rose Langford about her relationship with colour. Elizabeth Rose Langford is a Contemporary British Painting currently living and working in Ibiza. She has a BA in English and Philosophy from Nottingham University and a BA Fine Art, City and Guilds of London School of Art. Lizzy’s practice is site responsive; she wor...

Erin Lawlor is a contemporary British painter, she lives and works in London. After receiving her BA History of Art in 1992 from the Sorbonne University in Paris, Erin was based in France until 2013 when she returned to the UK. Since her first solo show in Paris in 2010, she has exhibited extensively around the world. Recent solo gallery exhibitions have included “Earthly Delights” at Vigo Gallery...

This month on 'A Geography of Colour' I am talking with painter Siemon Scamell-Katz about his relationship with colour. Siemon is a contemporary British painter, who has recently moved to France, living and working between La Soutteraine and Paris. Siemon’s practice is based on an understanding of the way humans see. In his mid-twenties, he launched a business that researched human behaviour and p...

This month on 'A Geography of Colour' I'm talking with painter Rema Ghuloum about her relationship with colour. Rema is a contemporary American painter who lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. She makes vibrant abstract paintings that have many layers, built up and sanded down to reveal their archaeologies. Earlier this year Rema had her second solo show 4 is a Rainbow Line at Et al, a gallery in S...

This month on 'A Geography of Colour' podcast I am talking with painter Miranda Boulton about her relationship with colour. Miranda is a contemporary British painter who lives and work in Cambridge, UK. She studied Art History at Sheffield Hallam University and at Turps Banana Art School in London. In 2021 she won the Jacksons Painting Prize. Notable exhibitions include: Royal Academy Summer Exhib...

This month on A Geography of Colour podcast I am talking with painter Simon Callery about his relationship with colour. Simon challenges what painting can do today. He makes work that exists on the margins of what can be understood as painting. On his studio wall is written the word ‘INVERT’ to remind him every day to subvert the established conventions of image-based painting, to find new roles a...

This month on A Geography of Colour podcast I am talking with painter Sarah Needham about her relationship with colour. Sarah lives and works in North London. Her painting is concerned with the way in which pigments leave material colour across human history, geography and traces of our interactions. Often something happening now prompts her research into a historical event or place and her painti...