Magazine Les Bois brings together essays, interviews and reflections on contemporary art, sustainable practice, collecting and cultural stewardship. Contributions are written by Gallery Les Bois, Claire-Julia Hill and named guest authors, with each piece intended to place artists and ideas within a clear and considered context.
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Art and Empathy in Contemporary Visual Culture
An insight piece by Claire-Julia Hill, Founder and Director, Gallery Les Bois August 12, 2026 Explore how contemporary art can cultivate empathy through portraiture, ecological attention and the patient act of looking. Read more -
Care as a Sculptural Language
An insight piece by Claire-Julia Hill, Founder and Director, Gallery Les Bois August 12, 2026 Care can become a sculptural language through material choice, patient making, repair and tactile presence. This essay explores sculpture as an act of attention. Read more -
How Artists Transform Pollution into Colour
An insight piece by Claire-Julia Hill, Founder and Director, Gallery Les Bois August 12, 2026 How John Sabraw transforms acid mine drainage into luminous pigments, joining environmental remediation, scientific collaboration and artistic excellence. Read more -
How Reclaimed Timber Carries Memory
An insight piece by Claire-Julia Hill, Founder and Director, Gallery Les Bois August 12, 2026 How Julian Emsley transforms salvaged timber into contemporary sculpture, preserving material memory through carving, burning and touch. Read more
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How Textile Art Changes Interior Spaces
An insight piece by Claire-Julia Hill, Founder and Director, Gallery Les Bois 12 Aug 2026 How contemporary textile art transforms interiors through scale, texture, light and material presence, with insights for collectors. Read more -
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. Read more -
Material Intelligence and Circular Design
An insight piece by Claire-Julia Hill, Founder and Director, Gallery Les Bois August 11, 2026 Material intelligence considers where materials come from, how they behave and what future lives they might have within a circular culture of artistic making. Read more -
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. Read more
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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. Read more -
Painting the Hidden Life of the Earth
An insight piece by Claire-Julia Hill, Founder and Director, Gallery Les Bois August 11, 2026 Explore how contemporary painters reveal roots, fungi, geology and ecological networks through abstraction, material intelligence and slow looking. Read more -
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. Read more -
The Future of Sculpture and Environmental Innovation
An insight piece by Claire-Julia Hill, Founder and Director, Gallery Les Bois August 11, 2026 Explore how contemporary sculpture combines pollution-absorbing ceramics, reclaimed materials, ecological symbolism and responsible innovation. Read more
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The Poetry of Slow Making: Time, Material and Contemporary Art
An insight piece by Claire-Julia Hill, Founder and Director, Gallery Les Bois August 11, 2026 Explore how slow making transforms fibre, reclaimed materials and wood into contemporary art shaped by patience, skill and lasting attention. Read more -
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. Read more -
Climate Action Week at Gallery Les Bois: A Reflection
An insight piece by Claire-Julia Hill, Founder and Director, Gallery Les Bois August 2, 2026 Gallery Les Bois reflects on Climate Action Week, connecting contemporary art, material practice and environmental dialogue. Read more -
Why Sustainability Should Be a Source of Artistic Innovation, Not a Restriction
An insight piece by Claire-Julia Hill, Founder and Director, Gallery Les Bois July 23, 2026 Claire-Julia Hill explores how sustainability can inspire artistic innovation, material experimentation and compelling contemporary art at Gallery Les Bois. Read more
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Stewardship, Not Ownership: Rethinking the Role of the Contemporary Art Collector
An insight piece by Claire-Julia Hill, Founder and Director, Gallery Les Bois July 8, 2026 Claire-Julia Hill reframes contemporary art collecting as stewardship through care, artist support, lending, legacy and cultural contribution. Read more -
Painting Clean Waters
An insight piece by Claire-Julia Hill, Founder and Director, Gallery Les Bois July 1, 2026 Gallery Les Bois reflects on Water Saving Week through John Sabraw's Sustainable Expressions exhibition at Treehouse Hotel London. Read more -
The Future of Collecting: Why Sustainability Will Sit Alongside Provenance and Artistic Merit
An insight piece by Claire-Julia Hill, Founder and Director, Gallery Les Bois June 22, 2026 Claire-Julia Hill explores why sustainability may sit alongside provenance and artistic merit in thoughtful contemporary art collecting. Read more -
Sustainable Art: Beyond Materials, Towards a More Thoughtful Future
An insight piece by Claire-Julia Hill, Founder and Director, Gallery Les Bois June 13, 2026 The term 'sustainable art' is becoming increasingly common within contemporary cultural discourse. It appears in exhibition texts, artist statements, marketing... Read more
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Investing in Sustainable Art: A London Gallery Perspective
By Gallery Les Bois May 4, 2026 Introduction: The Rise of Conscious Collecting In recent years, the art world has undergone a quiet but profound transformation. No... Read more -
Are Art Schools Practicing Sustainability?
By Madeleine Chalmers December 30, 2025 Madeleine Chalmers considers sustainability in art schools through reuse, shared materials, resourcefulness and material-led storytelling. Read more -
In Conversation with Michelle Gagliano
By Sanaer Madden December 30, 2025 Michelle Gagliano discusses landscape painting, Renaissance recipes, handmade pigments, material stewardship and sustainable studio practice. Read more -
Preserving the Arts and the Ecosystem
By Jennifer Mak December 30, 2025 Jennifer Mak examines sustainable art conservation, from lower-impact surfactants to Japanese tissue paper and culturally respectful treatment. Read more
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The Art of Imagining Change
By Niklas Todt December 30, 2025 Niklas Todt considers how art, activism and radical imagination can create space for regenerative futures and collective change. Read more -
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. Read more -
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. Read more -
In Conversation with Oliver Akdeniz
By Joseph Jenkinson June 29, 2025 Oliver Akdeniz discusses porcelain, reclaimed clay, crackle glazes, kiln efficiency and the environmental narratives behind his ceramic sculpture. Read more
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In Conversation with Heath Lowndes of Gallery Climate Coalition
On climate accountability, practical tools, and shifting norms in the art world, by Rosalie Clément-Hennion June 1, 2025 Heath Lowndes of Gallery Climate Coalition discusses emissions tracking, practical climate tools, transparency and shifting norms across the art world. Read more -
Excavating the Surface: On ROADWORKS by Volcan
Interview by Rosalie Clément-Hennion April 24, 2025 Rosalie Clément-Hennion speaks with Volcan artists Rex and Edna about ROADWORKS, material memory, distance, reuse and sustainable exhibition practice. Read more -
Threads of Thought: Sienna Martz on Material and Meaning
Interview by Rosalie Clément-Hennion April 13, 2025 Rosalie Clément-Hennion speaks with Sienna Martz about sustainable textiles, plant fibres, material ethics and ecological responsibility in contemporary art. Read more -
Material Matters: Rethinking the DNA of Contemporary Art
By Joseph Jenkinson April 1, 2025 Joseph Jenkinson explores how biofabrication, upcycling and regenerative materials are reshaping contemporary art and sustainable collecting. Read more
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Threads of Tradition: Sandra Junele Weaves Generations of Ancestral Sustainability into Contemporary Form
By Maxine Craig March 10, 2025 Maxine Craig explores Sandra Junele’s sustainable textile art, shaped by reclaimed fibres, plant-based glue, Latvian memory and meticulous making. Read more -
Unravelling Consumption: Saskia Saunders on Sustainability and Slow Making
By Saul Carlton March 1, 2025 Saskia Saunders discusses plant-based yarns, slow handweaving, Endlessly Ours and how sea and forest landscapes shape her sustainable textile art. Read more -
Decay as a Statement: The Rise of Ephemeral Art
By Joseph Jenkinson February 10, 2025 Joseph Jenkinson examines ephemeral art through decay, natural materials, documentation and artists including Bruce McLean and Andy Goldsworthy. Read more -
Slow Painting in a Fast World: Miranda Carter’s Sustainable Practice
By Ella Weiss February 1, 2025 Ella Weiss explores Miranda Carter’s sustainable landscape painting, from water-mixable oils and responsible supports to stillness, light and slow making. Read more
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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. Read more -
The Rise of the Sustainable Art Market
By Joseph Jenkinson January 1, 2025 Joseph Jenkinson examines the sustainable art market through responsible gallery practice, artist innovation and informed collecting. Read more
