Piper Bangs is a contemporary painter whose work combines traditional oil painting techniques with psychologically charged, biomorphic figures. Drawing from the visual languages of 19th-century academic painting, Rococo ornamentation, and Dutch Golden Age painting, Bangs creates a distinctive world populated by fleshy, fruit-like forms that explore vulnerability, tenderness, intimacy, and human relationships.

Annie Brito Hodgin (b. 1983) is an American figurative painter known for psychologically charged oil paintings that draw on mythology, literature, religion, and personal memory. Born in Poughkeepsie, New York, and raised in the American South, she is largely self-taught and lives and works in Hendersonville, Tennessee.

Peter Lynch (b. 1971, United Kingdom) is a contemporary visual artist based in London, known for his abstract paintings and works on paper. His practice focuses on exploring the tension between gesture and control within the act of painting.

Jordan Rubio (b. 1998, France) is an artist living and working in London. He holds an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art (2025) and a BA in Product and Graphic Design from École de Condé, Nice (2021).

As the founder of Artfully Awear, Ariel Adkins creates wearable art that transforms clothing into a storytelling tool, deepening art appreciation and fostering human connection

Lucy Robson draws on traditional painting methods and popular culture to explore femininity, desire, and the agony and ecstasy of romantic love. Her work is auto-fictitious, and depicts hyperbolic images that borrow from the aesthetics of cinema, and speak to the complexity of femininity in contemporary culture.

Kat Ryals is a Brooklyn-based mixed media artist. Her work explores the dichotomies between natural and artificial, trash and treasure, sacred and profane, luxury and kitsch. Through sculpture, lens-based work, textile art, and site-specific installations, she emulates material culture and organic artifacts.

Lydia Makin holds a BA in Fine Art from the Slade School of Fine Art and an MA in Fine Art from the Royal College of Art. She has received numerous accolades, including the Painters Stainers’ Company Scholarship, The Richard Ford Award, and the UCL East Provost Art Prize.

Multidisciplinary artist and director Duo Lin speaks to FOA on her formation as an artist and her most recent exhibition at Galerie Hoang Beli in Paris entitled, MARE

Callum Eaton (b. 1997, Bath, UK) lives and works in London, and was a Past Resident at the Mack Art Foundation

Daria Dmytrenko (b. 1993, Ukraine) speaks to FOA about and methodology behind her work which is currently on view at PM/AM Gallery in London through August 30th. Alongside her paintings, the exhibition features new sculptural figures which complement her work.