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Browse the artists represented by Sandven Art, with biographies and works currently available.
Scottish · 1 work
Alan Davie was a Scottish painter whose work brings together improvisation, vivid colour and an extensive vocabulary of signs. Trained at Edinburgh College of Art, he also worked as a jazz musician. His paintings and drawings move between energetic abstraction and recognisable imagery, drawing on sources ranging from maps and ancient carvings to his interest in Zen Buddhism. Rhythm and discovery are central to his art.
British · 3 works
Allen Jones is a British painter, sculptor and printmaker associated with Pop Art. Born in Southampton in 1937, he developed a visual language of saturated colour, stylised figures and theatrical poses. His work explores the relationship between the body and its representation, often drawing on dance, fashion and popular imagery. Across painting, sculpture and print, he examines how a flat image can suggest physical presence and movement.
British-Polish · 1 work
Andrzej Jackowski is a British-Polish painter, printmaker, drafter and teacher.
Norwegian · 1 work
Bjørn Ransve is a Norwegian painter, draughtsman and printmaker born in Oslo in 1944. His work explores the expressive possibilities of the human figure, animals and imagined situations. A precise command of drawing often meets unexpected colour and unsettling transformations. Across different periods, he has questioned how bodies, spaces and pictorial conventions can create meaning without relying on a single, stable narrative.
4 works
British · 5 works
Celia Paul is a British painter and printmaker born in Trivandrum, India, in 1959. Her work centres on people and places known intimately: her mother, sisters, herself, and the spaces in which she lives and works. Portraits, interiors and seascapes explore presence, memory and the passage of time. Repeated attention to familiar subjects gives her images both emotional concentration and a sense of sustained observation.
1 work
Painter, designer, sculptor, constructivist, tinsmith, keen observer.
Dansk · 1 work
Finn Pedersen was a Danish painter born on the island of Bornholm in 1944. His work developed under the influence of Asger Jorn and the expressive freedom associated with CoBrA. Strong colour, energetic marks and suggestions of faces or creatures animate his compositions. He belonged to a later generation working with this visual language, rather than to the original CoBrA group of 1948–1951.
Norwegian · 1 work
Frans Widerberg was a Norwegian painter and printmaker known for luminous colour and an imaginative figurative world. Born in Oslo in 1934, he developed recurring images of riders, horses and seemingly weightless human figures. His landscapes often operate as psychological or visionary spaces. The relationship between the isolated figure and an expansive setting gives his work a distinctive combination of energy, vulnerability and wonder.
Liechtenstein · 1 work
Georg Malin is an artist from Liechtenstein whose practice includes sculpture, drawing, watercolour and stamp design. Born in Mauren in 1926, he trained as a sculptor while studying history, art history, archaeology and philosophy. His artistic work forms part of a wider contribution to the country's cultural life. He was also the first curator of the Liechtenstein State Art Collection.
French · 2 works
Gérard Eppelé is a French painter, sculptor and printmaker born in Cherbourg in 1929. His work is centred on the human figure and the difficulty of understanding human experience. A background in tapestry and film set painting preceded his encounter with Jean Dubuffet in 1959. Drawing, painting, sculpture and illustrated books became related settings for a personal, often questioning approach to figuration.
German · 7 works
Gerd Winner was a German painter and printmaker whose work examined the structures and changing surfaces of the modern city. Born in Braunschweig in 1936, he became closely associated with screenprinting and the transformation of urban imagery. His collaboration with Chris Prater at Kelpra Studio in London began in 1970. Industrial buildings, transport systems and layered signs became material for an extended investigation of city space.
German · 1 work
Hermann Albert is a German painter born in Ansbach in 1937. His figurative work brings together human figures, still-life objects and landscapes in carefully arranged pictorial spaces. An enduring interest in Italy informs both his subjects and his treatment of colour. Monumental figures and simplified objects can give his paintings the stillness of a staged scene, while the paint surface preserves a tangible, worked quality.
German · 4 works
Horst Janssen was a German draughtsman and printmaker whose art placed drawing at the centre of an unusually varied practice. Born in Hamburg in 1929 and raised in Oldenburg, he studied under Alfred Mahlau. Portraits, landscapes, still lifes and imaginative transformations recur throughout his work. His command of line ranges from dense, restless marks to precise observation, often linking images with writing and the traditions of earlier art.
British · 10 works
James Gillray was a British caricaturist and printmaker whose images helped shape the language of political and social satire. Working in London around the turn of the nineteenth century, he used exaggeration, visual allusion and sharply observed detail to address public affairs and everyday behaviour. His prints bring together accomplished draughtsmanship and a dense world of references, making them both striking images and records of their historical moment.
Danish · 2 works
Jesper Neergaard is a Danish sculptor and writer born in Copenhagen in 1939. Working especially in marble and granite, he explores organic form, balance and movement. His background in literature and other academic subjects informs an interest in human relationships. Sculpture offers him a physical language for these concerns, ranging from works on an intimate scale to projects made for public spaces.
Dutch · 2 works
Karel Appel was a Dutch painter and sculptor and a co-founder of CoBrA in 1948. His work is known for energetic handling, emphatic colour and forms that move between abstraction and recognisable figures. Born in Amsterdam, he developed an international practice extending well beyond the group's brief existence. Experimentation with materials and methods remained central to his painting, sculpture and graphic work throughout his career.
Malaysian · 1 work
Khoo Sui Hoe is a Malaysian painter born in Kedah in 1939. Educated at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in Singapore, he developed a personal world of figures and landscapes that combines recognisable subjects with imaginative transformation. His images often evoke psychological spaces rather than literal places. He has also worked in printmaking, with further study at the Pratt Graphics Centre in New York.
Japanese · 1 work
Kumi Sugai was a Japanese painter and printmaker who moved to Paris in 1952. His work developed from signs and forms suggestive of calligraphy towards a more geometric language of clear shapes and strong colour. Printmaking became an important space for repetition and variation. Circles, lines and recurring emblems connect his images with an interest in movement and the visual rhythms of modern life.
1 work
Italian · 2 works
Mimmo Paladino is an Italian painter, sculptor and printmaker associated with the Transavanguardia. Born in Paduli in 1948, he helped renew interest in figurative imagery and experimentation with materials around 1980. His practice extends across painting, sculpture, prints, books and architectural settings. Images can evoke fragments of older cultures while remaining deliberately open, bringing past and present into an unresolved conversation.
Norsk · 2 works
Paul Brand er født i 1941 i Solothurn, Sveits.
German · 1 work
Peter Chevalier is a German painter born in Karlsruhe in 1953. His work combines recognisable things with unexpected relationships of scale, setting and form. Associated with the renewed interest in expressive painting from the late twentieth century, he draws on both figurative and abstract approaches. Objects and figures can appear to belong to a dreamlike construction rather than to an ordinary, continuous space.
American · 6 works
R. B. Kitaj was an American painter and printmaker who spent much of his career in Britain. Born in Ohio in 1932, he developed a figurative art shaped by literature, history and the reuse of existing images. His work brings together different visual sources without making their relationships immediately explicit. He was closely associated with the artists grouped under the name School of London.
Norwegian · 1 work
Sigmund Sinding was a Norwegian painter and draughtsman born in Munich in 1875. His work includes portraits, landscapes, city views and compositions drawn from history and mythology. He first exhibited at Norway's Autumn Exhibition in 1894. A concern with line and clearly articulated form connects parts of his work with older European painting, while his range of subjects reflects a varied artistic and literary practice.
Norsk · 1 work
Tore Gunnar Olsen is a Norwegian painter born in Askim in 1934. His work develops the relationship between observed nature and abstract composition, with colour playing a central role. Landscapes, sea and harbour subjects can remain recognisable while being organised into broad, carefully balanced areas. His painting builds on formal training in Oslo but favours a light, lyrical visual language over rigid structure.
French · 2 works
Victor Vasarely was a Hungarian-born French artist and a central figure in Op Art. His geometric compositions use repeated shapes and colour relationships to create sensations of depth, vibration and movement. Trained in Budapest before settling in Paris, he developed an art closely engaged with perception. His interest in reproducible forms and architectural settings also reflected a wish to bring art into a wider public environment.