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 landscapes 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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    Mask No. 2 by Gregory Malphurs
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    Mask No. 2 by Gregory Malphurs

    Mask No. 2

    Paintings - 102x76 cm
    Bedroom in June by Kim Marra
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    Bedroom in June by Kim Marra

    Bedroom in June

    Paintings - 102x76 cm
    Radiant Fusion by Robert LeMar
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    Radiant Fusion by Robert LeMar

    Radiant Fusion

    Paintings - 61x91 cm
    SEARCH FOR MT. FUJI by Gocha Tsinadze
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    SEARCH FOR MT. FUJI by Gocha Tsinadze

    SEARCH FOR MT. FUJI

    Paintings - 56x76 cm
    Funeral Flowers by Jessica Matier
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    Funeral Flowers by Jessica Matier

    Funeral Flowers

    Paintings - 107x183 cm
    Black Rose Succulent by Michael Pfleghaar
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    Black Rose Succulent by Michael Pfleghaar

    Black Rose Succulent

    Paintings - 91x91 cm
    Bouquet No.2 by Sara Richardson
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    Bouquet No.2 by Sara Richardson

    Bouquet No.2

    Paintings - 76x56 cm
    THE GIVE AND TAKE by Jessica Matier
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    THE GIVE AND TAKE by Jessica Matier

    THE GIVE AND TAKE

    Paintings - 81x61 cm
    Diptych 6 by Benjamin Weaver
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    Diptych 6 by Benjamin Weaver

    Diptych 6

    Paintings - 41x51 cm
    Edge to Edge by Winnie Sidharta
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    Edge to Edge by Winnie Sidharta

    Edge to Edge

    Paintings - 46x41 cm
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    I FEEL YOU ALWAYS by Stacey Warnix

    I FEEL YOU ALWAYS

    Paintings - 132x158 cm
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    Lusco Fusco by Sabrina Barrios

    Lusco Fusco

    Paintings - 64x63 cm
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    Organic Plastic by Michael Pfleghaar

    Organic Plastic

    Paintings - 51x41 cm
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    Outdoor Movie by Kim Marra

    Outdoor Movie

    Paintings - 76x76 cm
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    Tropical garden by Victoria Stagni

    Tropical garden

    Paintings - 76x100 cm
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    Picnic by Kim Marra

    Picnic

    Paintings - 76x76 cm
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    Beautiful desert by Laurence G. Art

    Beautiful desert

    Paintings - 54x38 cm
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    Morningstand  by Kim Marra

    Morningstand

    Paintings - 61x76 cm
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    Nightlands reflections  by Novi Lim

    Nightlands reflections

    Paintings - 125x93 cm
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    SUMMIT by Dave Smith

    SUMMIT

    Paintings - 92x122 cm
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    Roman Woman  by Tony Girolo

    Roman Woman

    Paintings - 56x56 cm
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    Woman Seated in Pink by Heidi Lanino

    Woman Seated in Pink

    Paintings - 102x76 cm
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    REDUX by Dave Smith

    REDUX

    Paintings - 92x122 cm
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    Empty Nest by Kally Laurence

    Empty Nest

    Paintings - 110x106 cmRent for $115 /mo
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    Say What by Susan Thompson

    Say What

    Paintings - 100x70 cmRent for $140 /mo
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    Banana garden by Diana Rosa

    Banana garden

    Paintings - 122x122 cm
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    The Rug is Concrete by Kim Marra

    The Rug is Concrete

    Paintings - 74x86 cm

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