Vincent Black (b. 1975), lives and works in London. He studied fine art at Byamshaw (1997-2000). Black’s paintings have been shown extensively in London and are included in the permanent collection of St Mary’s Hospital, London, as well as other NHS trusts. 

Black’s works in oil portray deep personal emotions as he takes the viewer into hazy constructed worlds of solitary figures and vast, enigmatic landscapes. Working between thick impasto and thinly veiled layers of oil paint, the viewer is transported into a world of self-reflection and meditation. 

Hovering between abstraction and figuration, Vincent is a fresh voice to emerge from a long lineage of painters who mediate an interior and exterior experience. Building upon the legacy of the postwar London painters such as: Francis Bacon, Leon Kossoff and Frank Auerbach,  Black proves the perpetual possibilities still present in oil paint, to imbue striking feeling and emotion into his subjects.

selected works