Vincent Driscoll

I am a prize-winning British artist who has practised his art since leaving 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.

My paintings explore the dynamic interplay between line, space, and colour, striving for a poetic intensity. Soul in preference to perfection. I consider my paintings, indeed all abstract painting, to be aesthetic machines and like a machine, a painting has a purpose with components that combine in an integrated visual system. Therefore, my challenge is to create compositions with totality, without dominant focal points or visual hierarchies. Every element of the picture must be alive, equally present, equally demanding. Colours working with equal force. Only the essential is included, coming at the spectator all at once.

I work in series to explore a specific idea or approach in depth across multiple works. A work from one such series of paintings, Everything At Once #4, was a winner of the Homiens Art Pr...

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
Other Art Fair, London 2025
Homiens Art Prize, Winners Exhibition, New York 2025