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  • Detail of Michelle Gagliano’s Stratum (2024), a handmade oil painting with layered blue, ochre, charcoal and earth-toned passages on panel.

    Why Traditional Painting Techniques Still Matter

    An insight piece by Claire-Julia Hill, Founder and Director, Gallery Les Bois August 12, 2026
    Why traditional painting techniques still matter: discover how grounds, layered colour and disciplined observation give contemporary painting depth and longevity.
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  • Detail of Saskia Saunders’ Embrace (2025), showing flowing white handwoven linen threads across a softly textured natural linen ground.

    Quiet as a Contemporary Artistic Value

    An insight piece by Claire-Julia Hill, Founder and Director, Gallery Les Bois August 11, 2026
    Explore how contemporary artists use restraint, material sensitivity and slow looking to make quiet a powerful artistic value.
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  • Steve Foster’s Raspberry Ripple (2025), a luminous pink flower painting with layered petals emerging from a dark green ground.

    Painting Light Before It Disappears

    An insight piece by Claire-Julia Hill, Founder and Director, Gallery Les Bois August 11, 2026
    Explore how contemporary painters capture changing light, atmosphere and fleeting moments that reward sustained attention from collectors.
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  • Michelle Gagliano’s Lambing Storm (2024), an abstract oil painting of layered earth tones, luminous blue and fluid atmospheric forms.

    Natural Materials in Contemporary Oil Painting

    An insight piece by Claire-Julia Hill, Founder and Director, Gallery Les Bois August 11, 2026
    Explore how natural pigments, oils, hand-prepared grounds and lower-toxicity practices shape contemporary oil painting and informed collecting.
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  • Claire-Julia Hill looking at artwork 'Peach Melba' by artist Steve Foster

    Can Art Change the Way We Think About the Environment?

    An insight piece by Claire-Julia Hill, Founder and Director, Gallery Les Bois August 2, 2026
    Claire-Julia Hill considers how contemporary art can reshape environmental awareness, attention and action.
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  • Detail of Into the Blue by Caitlin Heffernan

    When Time Meets Ecology: The Shared Language of Slow and Sustainable Art

    By Joseph Jenkinson December 30, 2025
    Joseph Jenkinson explores how slow art and sustainable practice share a language of time, material integrity, attention and care.
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  • Detail of Waking Ground by artist Miranda Carter

    The Role of Nature in Art Making

    By Millie Jeffery December 30, 2025
    Millie Jeffery explores nature in art through Miranda Carter, Julian Emsley and Steve Foster, asking how representation can deepen ecological care.
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  • Close-up oil painting of a pale pink peony against a dark green background by Steve Foster.

    The Art of Holding Time: Steve Foster’s Sustainable Approach to Fleeting Moments

    By Maxine Craig January 10, 2025
    Maxine Craig explores Steve Foster’s sustainable floral painting, where close observation, careful studio habits and oil capture fleeting natural beauty.
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