Profiles

Discover the rich diversity of Wandsworth’s creative scene here by exploring profiles of incredible local artists, cultural organisations, projects and groups. To search for specific art forms, areas, or profile types use the filters below.

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Margaret Donaldson

Furzedown

Margaret Donaldson is a painter and printmaker using a variety of mediums: acrylic, watercolour, wood and Lino cut, etching and collagraph. Margaret's inspiration is the natural environment.

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Ben Poultney

Tooting

Ben Poultney is a self-taught, freelance illustrator, born and raised in the Midlands, now calling London his home. He specialises in personalised, locally themed artwork that his customers find fun, engaging and educational.

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Roger Blake

Balham

Roger Blake is a Scottish-born, Balham/Tooting-based illustrator with over 20 years of graphic design experience in both corporate multi-national and local business environments, and currently concentrates on illustration work. He has worked extensively abroad in…

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Hernan Reinoso

Balham

Hernan is a self-taught artist from Argentina who now lives in the wonderful city of London. Hearts of London initially started out based on an idea around framed hearts for Valentine's Day but has since…

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Krystal Wong

Balham

Krystal Wong is aN illustrator, graphic designer and artist, with a love for candy pop colours. Pulling inspiration from childhood memories, her home town of South London and vivid colors found in life and nature.

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Hugo Lami

Battersea

Hugo Lami (1994, Portugal) lives and works in London. His artistic work makes use of history and mythology in contrast with the technological and cultural evolution of our time. Hugo has always been drawn towards…

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Genny Rowson

Balham

Gentangle Designs is an illustrator from Balham.

Genny, the face behind Gentangle Designs, creates her designs using intricate shapes and patterns, producing unique, bold and beautiful imagery. Her work is predominantly on animals and nature,…

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Emma Sutton

Wandsworth Town

Emma Sutton is an artist based in Wandsworth. She depicts still life and animals in oils and watercolour pencils.

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Sam Haynes

Southfields

Sam Haynes started her practice over twenty five years ago, creating site-specific public art installations, engaging local, often marginalised communities. While arts facilitation remains an important part of her practice, she is now focusing on…

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Robin Smith

Tooting

Robin Smith creates bold figurative paintings of fantastical creatures, beautiful women and people in his life. He works intuitively, carefully building up undulating shapes and dense, vivid colours, responding to each line and form as…

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Helena Boase

Battersea

Helena Boase is an artist who has a particular love of depicting the human form, as well as sensitive and evocative landscapes. Primarily working in oil paint and charcoal, she currently trains at London Fine…

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Bergina Leka

Southfields

Emotions are essential to Bergina Leka's creativity, who pours them into artistic outlets. By making art, Bergina is exploring their own story and experiences, making meaning of them, achieving some catharsis, and inspiring or comforting…

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Izabel Wocial

Furzedown

Izabel’s artwork focuses on the tensions and interrelationships between human society and urban space. Izabel aims to communicate this through the use of objects and their relationships in order to highlight how space influences human…

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Qize Zhu

Battersea

Qize Zhu is a dreamer and canine lover who loves visual communication design and interaction design. She is a prospective designer who likes to explore how to enhance the emotional connection of the user's virtual…

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Riya Patel

Battersea

Riya Patel is a multidisciplinary designer, seeking new dimensions of interactions across different digital mediums. She loves to explore how digital stories can be used to enhance the emotional connection between people and nature.

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Lindsey Whitelaw

Wandsworth Common

Lindsey Whitelaw represents precariously balanced communities working in symbiotic relationship with an environment which is at a crisis point. In her Hive series she explores this subject on both micro and macrocosmic scales. She fuses…

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Michael Alan-Kidd

Tooting

Michael strives for excellent craftsmanship and fine detail. The three greatest influences on his art are surrealism, cubism and portraiture.

At this point in Michael's career, he’s concerned with trying to make surrealism more effective.…

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Wachira Sucharitkul

Battersea

Wachira is an artist and photographer based in Battersea. Shape and colour have always excited and inspired Wachira.

Moving full-time to London – Battersea, specifically – in 2006, the iconic Battersea Power Station caught her…

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Abhaya Rajani

Battersea

Abhaya Rajani's projects are inspired by contemporary questions that do not seek answers, and instead raise further questions. Through installations, drawing or sculpture, topics often concern the materiality of everyday objects and their meanings with…

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Matthew Dowell

Tooting

Matthew Dowell was born in Sunderland, UK in 1994. He studied Fine Art at Kingston School of Art (2013-16) and Print at The Royal College of Art. He was shortlisted for the Gillian Dickinson North…