Associated Artists
Other artists working in association with KELLART.
Emaan Pirzada
Emaan Pirzada (b. Pakistan) is a visual artist and miniature painter based in Bristol, UK. Specialising in Indo-Persian miniature painting, she graduated with honours in Fine Arts from the National College of Arts. Her practice explores the intersection of space and emotion, examining how environments and architecture shape memory and identity.
Pirzada’s work has been exhibited internationally across Pakistan, South Korea, the UAE, and the UK, including the London Art Biennale 2025. She has completed residencies at DRAW International (France) and Jelly Studios (UK), and was awarded The Eaton Fund in 2026.
Alongside her studio practice, she has held roles across teaching and curatorial work. She has taught in Cairo and Istanbul, served as Assistant Curator at Satrang Gallery, and worked as Project Manager at Foundation Art Divvy, promoting South Asian Art through global exhibitions and research initiatives.
Gionatani Scali
Gionatan Scali is a London-based multidisciplinary artist, musician, and performer originally from Turin, Italy. His practice spans painting, video art, music, and immersive installations. Active across creative disciplines for nearly two decades, his work explores inner landscapes and the relationship between sound and image.
Scali works across oil painting, video art, mixed media, and live performance. His work constructs a narrative connecting visual art and sound as complementary experiences.
Artistic Statement: My paintings and music are two doors into the same space — a way to explore emotion, memory, and perception
Katarzyna Wroniak
Katarzyna Wroniak is a Polish abstract painter whose work explores the emergence of form through an intuitive and deeply attentive creative process.
After more than twenty years in international real estate investment and asset management, she chose to devote her life to painting. This transition was inspired by a profound personal experience during a journey in Peru, which shifted her perspective on creativity and the way she perceives reality. Rather than defining her work, that experience opened the door to an ongoing practice of observation, trust, and discovery.
Her paintings are inhabited by organic, biomorphic forms that emerge naturally through layers of oil paint. These structures are not planned; they develop as traces of perception, intuition, and time. Often, only after a work is complete does its deeper meaning become visible to the artist herself.
Rather than illustrating the external world, Wroniak is interested in the invisible processes that shape inner experience. Her paintings invite viewers into a space of stillness, curiosity, and contemplation, where meaning is discovered rather than explained.
Tori Woolley
Tori Woolley, also known as the Pink Hare, is an emerging contemporary artist who has created a distinctive realm of characters within the Yoodle-verse – a playful yet thought-provoking universe that brings imagination vividly to life. Her work explores the boundaries between abstraction, storytelling, and interaction, with each Yoodle character embodying a fragment of her creative vision
Doodling has been at the heart of Tori’s origins since childhood, when sketching across pages and scraps of paper offered her a form of escapism and expression where words could not. What began as spontaneous marks evolved into a language of characters that now populate her paintings, installations, and designs, transforming personal creativity into a shared imaginative space.
Tori breaks free from the bounds of her imagination, stepping into this world where the Yoodle-verse and reality merge, connecting with the viewer to create a single moment that needs no words
Robert Walker
Robert Walker aka theartistrobert is a Suffolk-based figurative oil painter best known for his 'geo-figurative' works, combining classical realism with contemporary geometric abstraction and psychologically charged mythological themes. Drawing from artist models, Renaissance statuary, and the long traditions of figurative painting, his work explores gesture, symbolism, and the emotional resonance of the human figure.
Working primarily in oils, Walker combines classical techniques with layered colour and atmosphere to create paintings that feel timeless yet contemporary. His recent work increasingly explores the relationship between realism, abstraction, and material surface. He was shortlisted for the Visual Artists Association of the Year Award in 2024 and his The Cost of Love exhibition at Rugby Art Gallery & Museum drew favourable press from art historian, author and BBC presenter Ruth Millington.
He is also active supporting charity organisations including HeartCharged, a female defibrillation awareness project; aspacebetween, a cancer art therapy organisation providing solace and connection through art in difficult times and worked with The Bow Arts Trust to create the Mick Bateman Award to support artists whose discipline is metal-based sculpture. When he's away from his easel, he's most likely to be found with his guitar, reading or travelling and always learning.
Frances Bildner
Statement: The thematic concept of my work is concerned with life in all its myriad forms. I am influenced by the German Expressionists and the Abstract Expressionists. I place emphasis on the emotive aspect of the work and, like them, my work is both emotional and immediate. I paint from my imagination. When I was thirteen years old, Sir Charles Wheeler, the past president of the Royal Academy, wanted to buy my flower painting, which had won first prize in a competition in East Sussex. I have been an artist for many years, working in a variety of mediums, paintings, mosaic tables, walls and trays, and textiles.
I am a colourist, I love colour in all its variety. My paintings are organic. An image may appear on the canvas and will become something, a flower, an abstract, a figure. I don't have a prefixed idea. I have been lucky in my life to have lived in very exciting, colourful places, Buenos Aires, London, New York. These places have had a great influence on my paintings. My work, which I have been told adds life to the environment, has been sold to businesses and homes.
Impressions magazine described me as "a passionate and seductive painter, Bildner's riotous use of colour affirms this view. The paintings are in definite, almost aggressively joyous, dialogue with the viewer and their presence is hard to ignore." New York's Village Voice declared my work to be "varied and vital enough to renew a jaded spirit".
Susan Thompson
"Susan Thompson is a London-based abstract painter whose practice is rooted in an intuitive and experimental approach to colour, mark-making and form. Nature is a continuing source of inspiration, particularly its rich palette, varied structures and quiet sense of order. Rather than depicting the natural world directly, Thompson translates these qualities into abstract compositions that explore balance, movement and atmosphere.
'I am drawn to abstract painting for the freedom it offers to create without constraints or predetermined outcomes. There is a sense of excitement in not knowing where a painting will lead, much like the opening notes of a favourite piece of music. I allow improvisation and imagination to guide the work, responding to what emerges."
Mkhitar Aslanian
Mkhitar Aslanian belongs to a generation of artists whose development unfolded against the profound cultural and historical transformations of the second half of the twentieth century. His artistic identity emerged at the intersection of several traditions: the Armenian and Georgian cultural environments, the academic foundations of the Soviet art school, and the wider legacy of twentieth-century European art. Over time, however, his practice came to be defined less by affiliation with any particular movement than by a sustained search for an independent visual language.
Aslanian's engagement with art began in childhood and later developed through formal artistic training. From 1969 to 1973, he studied easel painting at the Panos Terlemezian Art College in Yerevan, working in the studios of Z. Grigoryan and V. Hayrapetyan. The atmosphere surrounding his education proved particularly significant. Art was understood not simply as a profession or technical discipline, but as an intellectual and ethical position, an understanding that would remain fundamental to Aslanian's approach to his work.
Bobby Forsythe
Bobby Forsythe is a British artist whose practice explores materiality, embodiment, perception, and human interaction. She holds a BA in Fine Art from the University of Suffolk and an MA in Art History and Theory from the University of Essex. In 2020, she founded Supporting the Arts, an artist-led collective established to support and promote emerging and established artists through annual exhibitions featuring both local and international practitioners.
Central to Forsythe’s practice is an exploration of how audiences experience and communicate with art through the body. Her research considers participation as something that extends beyond conventional tactile or visual engagement, instead examining the subtle forms of bodily communication that occur between an individual, an artwork, and the surrounding space. This interest has informed the development of large-scale interactive and motion-responsive works, in which movement becomes both a method of interaction and a means of experiencing the work.
Miche Watkins
I am an artist living in Bristol, UK. I used to live in Cape Town, South Africa, and part of my heart is forever there. While living in Africa, I developed a style of painting I called Line Art. After recently discovering the work of Michael Craig-Martin, I realised it is Pop Art. My pieces are acrylic, spare in detail and usually full of bright colour, inspired by the warmth and sunshine of Cape Town. A strong black outline brings each work together.
My swimming pool scenes are about navigating life alone as a woman, embracing it and never feeling lonely. I am drawn to sparseness and isolation, but also to peace and joy, and I believe the two can run in tandem. I also paint smaller works of food, as food can nearly always bring happiness. Pop Art does not always need heavy symbolism.I am now working on a new series featuring cropped aspects of well-known Bristol landmarks. These paintings use bright, vibrant colours and my own compositions to add interest.