Vincent Driscoll

I am a prize-winning British artist who has practised his art since finishing art school in the 1980s, exhibiting and selling regularly. I paint full time and live in Portsmouth on the south coast of England. I’m driven by the challenge of creating beautiful, impactful objects that 1. provide an immediate and enduring experience and 2. change a space positively by their presence, even when they're not being looked at directly.

The work available here was painted from 2019 to 2025 and explores the dynamic interplay between line, space, and colour, striving for a poetic intensity. Soul in preference to perfection. I consider abstract paintings to be aesthetic machines and like a machine, a painting has a purpose with components that combine to create an experience for the spectator in an integrated system.

I work in series to explore a specific idea or approach in depth across multiple works. A work from a recent series of paintings, Everything At Once #4, was honoured with the Homiens Art Prize in 2025.

Painting what I, or no one else, has ever seen is always an adventure and a thrill for me, especially when the results are pleasantly surprising. But a painting isn’t truly complete until it’s on a wall, interacting with a specta...

Newbury College 1979-1982
Chelsea College of Art 1982-3
Goldsmiths College 1983-6

London Ultra, 2019
Spring Exhibition, D31 Gallery, Doncaster 2023
Abstract, Part Crowd Gallery, Toronto 2025
Homiens Art Prize, Winners Exhibition, New York 2025