The Twelve Styles

Twelve coined styles, one per artist — what each one actually means, and who paints it.

Every artist here works in one style and only one, and each of those styles has a name you will not find in another gallery. They are not movements borrowed from art history — they describe exactly what the artist makes, so you can tell before you click whether a piece is going to be for you.

Lantern Path

by Yuki Tanaka

Rain-lit lantern paths in Kyoto and Tokyo, maple reds and cherry pinks against indigo, knife-textured reflections on wet stone, one small distant figure with an umbrella.

Loud Line

by Chris Vega

Thick black brush-line cartoon figures and animals over spray-colour fields, one hand-lettered bilingual phrase painted into the picture, LA street pleasures, humour with a heart.

Nordlys Flow

by Sofia Larsson

Poured aurora flows over Nordic water, two or three sharp realist elements on a low horizon, pale gold and cold blue lit by green and magenta, a great deal of sky.

Velvet Absurd

by Zara Moon

Staged theatrical surrealism with a single glitched element, one inverted rule per scene, props as vocabulary, the title as the clue, velvet-dark grounds.