JOSEPH DILNOT

Joseph Dilnot paints imagined worlds where personal mythology, English folklore, and the landscape of the Sussex coast dissolve into one another. Working mostly in oil on small, intricately worked panels, he builds solitary journeying figures, hybrid creatures, and quietly enchanted objects into scenes that hold grief alongside wonder and hope. Self-taught after two scholarships at The Essential School of Painting in 2019, Dilnot has exhibited internationally, including Enta Geweorc (The Work of Giants) (MEPAINTSME, Online, 2025), Sound of the Past (Patrick Davies Contemporary Art, UK, 2026), and Life, a two-person exhibition with David Surman (Weald Contemporary, Brighton, 2024). Selected group exhibitions include One Thing Touches Another (Maya Frodeman Gallery, Jackson, WY, 2025) and Fair Ground (Glyndebourne, Sussex, 2024).

DAVID NORO

David Noro translates fragments of a personal archive, half-remembered words, songs and conversations, into paintings, collage,and mixed-media works where narrative surfaces and dissolvesthrough mark-making and material experimentation. Working across acrylic, lacquer, ink, and phototransfer on wood and fabric, often without an easel, he treats the everyday and inherited family history, including his Italian grandfather’s craft of donkey-saddle making, as source material for image-making that resists a single fixed story.Noro has exhibited internationally, including Cards for Sentiments (Althuis Hofland Fine Arts, Amsterdam, 2025), Record of a Sneeze (Billedkunstnerne i Oslo, Oslo, 2025), and Always Already (Richter Galleria, Rome, 2024). Selected group exhibitions include Narrative Minds (Asia Art Center, Taipei, 2022) and Cobra 75: Grenzeloos en Vrij (Cobra Museum, Amstelveen, 2023).

HEIDRUN RATHGEB

Heidrun Rathgeb translates fleeting, overlooked moments of daily life (the steam of a kettle, moonlight over a mountain, a child asleep at dusk) into small, luminous panels of egg tempera on gesso. Drawing daily from her rural home near Lake Constance and from residencies across Scandinavia, Scotland, and the Alps, she builds each painting from layered sketchbook studies, finding in early Sienese painting and in Paula Modersohn-Becker a model for uncovering wonder within the domestic and ordinary. Rathgeb has exhibited internationally, including North of the Sun (John Martin Gallery, London, 2024), My Yellow Room (532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel, New York, 2023), and I Watch the Mountains Changing Colour (Sea View, Los Angeles, 2025). Selected group exhibitions include the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (London, 2025) and Slight of Hand (MEPAINTSME, New York, 2023).@heidrun.rathgeb

GOSIA MACHON

Gosia Machon makes figurative-abstract paintings and drawings through intuitive processes driven by an inner archive of unconscious, autobiographical, and collective memory. Running through her work is a longing for untouched nature, literal wilderness and the wild interior of the human psyche alike, built up in dramatic, layered gesture. She studied illustration at HAW Hamburg (2003–2008), where she has lived and worked since, and now teaches drawing and painting at German art academies. Machon has exhibited widely, including the solo shows LIEB LEIB LEID LIED (HilbertRaum, Berlin, 2021) and Tier (Galerie Snow, Berlin, 2022), and the group show Anonymous Was A Woman (Clint Roenisch Gallery, Toronto, 2022). In 2026 MEPAINTSME presents her in the two-person exhibition Shadowplay (DON’T LOOK ANNEX, Los Angeles).

LUCAS KAISER

Lucas Kaiser builds layered, dry-media compositions in pencil, oilstick, and pigment on paper that unsettle the everyday, drawing figures, landscapes, and architectural forms into a distorted, ambiguous middle ground between illustration and simulation. Working from his studio in Leipzig, he treats the human figure as something to be deliberately “contaminated” rather than idealized, probing the uncanny valley between the two-dimensional and the three-dimensional, the idyllic and the abyss. Kaiser has exhibited internationally, including Appropriate Illusion (Weserhalle, Berlin, 2024), Constant Glimmer (ThisWeekendRoom, Seoul, 2025), and Down at the Green Meadow (ThisWeekendRoom, Seoul, 2023). Selected group exhibitions include When Daylight Descends (Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing, 2025–26) and Kunstpreis junger Westen 2025 – Malerei (Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, 2025).

LISA IVORY

Lisa Ivory conjures a shadowland of wildmen, beasts and skeletal figures who trade places with the human body, turning folklore into a darkly comic theatre of mortality, desire and control. Working in oil on gessoed panel and linen, in soft blacks, dirty blues and yellowish whites over earth-toned underpainting, she treats the canvas like a sketchbook of constant erasure, casting the liminal and the outsider as anti-heroes rather than victims. Ivory has exhibited widely, including the solo shows The Near Distance (Charlie Smith London, London, 2026), Eyes of the Landscape (Nino Mier Gallery, Brussels, 2024), and Beasts Beguiled (Museum of Witchcraft and Magic, Cornwall, 2023). Selected group exhibitions include Beyond the Gaze – Reclaiming The Landscape (Saatchi Gallery, London, 2023) and Un/ Related (Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York, 2023).