Our Style

These are some of the characteristics we, as a gallery, look for when considering an artist’s work.

Painterliness: Expressive use of paint, celebrating its unique characteristics. Whether thick impasto or thin scumbles and washes, as painters, we are all about how an artist handles paint, demonstrating the physicality of the medium.

Mark-making: We love experimental and distinctive mark-making. That a painting can show the history of its making on the surface is something that interests us.

Looseness: Looser painting styles really appeal to us. Broken lines and expressive brushwork over tidy edges and realistic depictions.

Individual style: Style is very important and we look for artists whose style is immediately recognisable.

Contemporary/Historic: We appreciate work that also references or ‘tips its hat’ to either modernist or earlier visual languages.

Representation/Abstraction: The name of our gallery ‘The Point’ represents the ever-shifting points where things meet. In Art terms, this means we are interested in the relationship between representation and abstraction. We lean towards Art and artists whose work traverses these boundaries. With a particular focus on semi-abstracted landscapes, seascapes and still life.

Whilst we appreciate and love many forms of art, these are the styles, subjects and approaches that would not fit in with our gallery.

Street and Urban Art

Graphic Art

Pop Art

Hard Edge Abstraction

Photo Realism

Fantasy Art

Traditional painting (Academic painting)

Portraiture (Figurative Art may be considered)

Pet or Animal Portraits