Paintings For Sale

Explore an extensive selection of original paintings for sale or available to rent. Showcasing contemporary paintings from some of the most exciting artists working today, our curated selection includes everything from oil paintings to watercolour, and from llandscapes to acrylic paintings. Browse our online collection and discover new paintings perfect for your home.

Buy Contemporary Paintings

Use our filters to find contemporary paintings in a range of media and styles by artists based in the UK and around the globe. Whether you’re looking for vibrant works by Kotaro Machiyama, delicate watercolour landscapes by Tou Toa, Louise McNaught’s mixed media animal portraits, or anything in between, we have something for art collections of all types.

We curate an unparalleled collection of paintings. As well as offering artworks embodying the cutting edge of experimentation in painting, such as Michael Tierney’s surrealist mixed media pieces, we are proud to showcase a range of painters drawing influence from the medium’s far-reaching history. Andrew Crane and Philip Tyler take inspiration from 20th-century expressionism, whilst Ta Byrne and Stella Kapezanou employ more traditional representational techniques to make us take a second, deeper look at their real and imagined subjects.

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History Of Modern Painting

Although painting has been a pastime for humans throughout our existence, the abstract and conceptual artworks we now see as timeless examples of the practice are relatively modern. Until the 20th century, painters focused exclusively on representational images: still lifes, portraiture or natural and religious subjects. We see this trend to varying degrees in the work of Monet, Van Gogh and other epoch-defining artists. Since then, painters have been testing the limits of the medium, experimenting with an expanding range of media and subject matter. The trend for geometric abstract paintings, for example, runs from pioneers such as Mondrian and Martin to contemporary artists such as Hetty Haxworth and Crispin Holder. The artists we hand-pick are at the forefront of the evolution of contemporary painting in the 21st century.

Painting has long been seen as a means of communication, albeit more slight and indirect than the spoken or written form. Edward Hopper once stated, “if you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint.” This has increasingly been the case with the emergence of new painting styles and methods that push the boundaries of representation, from Impressionism to Surrealism to Expressionism. Each of our artworks has been chosen because it communicates in its nuances something not tangible enough to convey by other means – from the straightforwardly representational to the abstract and conceptual.

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    Resting by Susan Thompson

    Resting

    Paintings - 100x70 cmRent for $140 /mo
    Avec le temps I by Diane de Cicco

    Avec le temps I

    Paintings - 80x80 cm
    SAILOR MOON by MC Garbage

    SAILOR MOON

    Paintings - 100x100 cm
    Au bord de l'eau by Régine Pivier-Attolini

    Au bord de l'eau

    Paintings - 80x80 cm
    after the rain by Valery Khattin

    after the rain

    Paintings - 90x140 cm
    Violet Breeze/Lemon Groves by Ben Stephenson

    Violet Breeze/Lemon Groves

    Paintings - 105x74 cm

    Foisonnement

    Paintings - 100x80 cm

    Les nymphes

    Paintings - 100x70 cm

    Socially Involved 2.

    Paintings - 46x34 cm

    Solitude

    Paintings - 102x102 cm

    Untitled Flowers Study 9

    Paintings - 30x25 cmRent for $90 /mo

    Collection SPARTIATE

    Paintings - 100x73 cm

    Ninth Inning Last Night

    Paintings - 64x64 cm

    Viltė

    Paintings - 90x120 cmRent for $210 /mo

    Raviolis & soda

    Paintings - 95x95 cm

    Spider Panther

    Paintings - 37x37 cm

    J+foule bloc...

    Paintings - 100x100 cm

    Homme amphore

    Paintings - 92x65 cm

    Waterfall

    Paintings - 51x41 cm

    Turquoise Bay 1

    Paintings - 120x100 cm

    Chanceux

    Paintings - 73x60 cm

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