Ian Palmer

IAN PALMER
paintings / collages / sculptures.

Ian Palmer creates large-format abstract canvases that explores the space where gesture, atmosphere, and memory converge, using scale as a means to immerse viewers in fields of shifting color and movement. Each painting unfolds through layers of sweeping strokes, delicate scratches, and unexpected bursts of energy, inviting viewers to experience the tension between stillness and motion.

Palmer approaches the canvas as an open terrain—one that holds both structure and spontaneity. His luminous color fields that seem to breathe, dynamic rhythms created through drips, splatters, and fluid lines. He embraces the expressive power of handwriting-like gestures and the evocative presence of marks that feel both intimate and expansive.

His process is deeply physical, involving movements that range from quiet, incremental shifts to sweeping, full-bodied gestures. Pigments are pushed, poured, erased, and reintroduced, creating surfaces that echo cycles of emergence and disappearance. Through this interplay of intention and improvisation, Palmer seeks to evoke emotional resonance—an invitation for viewers to enter a contemplative space shaped as much by their own perception as by the artist’s h...

Diploma: Worthing College of Art
Degree: 2.1 Lanchester College of Art - General Graphic Design - specializing in animation.

Designer & Art Director CCL Events
Partner Big Twist Productions
Design Consultant 10-44 Designs

July 2023
La Reole, Last 10 Years

July/August 2015
Condom, Galerie Zambezi One - Summer Expo

August - September10th 2015
Summer Show - Valence D'Agen

8 Novembre - 30 Novembre 2014
Albi, 36 Salon D'Automne a'Albi

26th September - 22 November 2014
Condom, Galerie Zambezi One - Exposition D'Automne

21 - 23 November 2014
Lectoure, Rencontre avec les Metier D'Arts

14 Novembre - 22 Novembre 2014
24 Salon d'Automne Castelsarrasin

17th October - 11 November 2014
La Salle de Clairac, XXVeme Salon International de Peinture de CLAIRAC

26 - 28 September 2014
Valence D'Agen, Salon Art et Garonne

12 July - 15 August 2014
St Antonin Noble-Val, 37 Salon d'Art Contemporain

6 - 28 May 2014
Valence D'Agen, Espace Republique, Solo show

22 - 24 November 2013
Lectoure, Rencontre avec les Metier D'Arts

23 - 25 November 2012
Lectoure, Rencontre avec les Metier D'Arts

20 - 30 July 2012 Auvillar,
Galerie Bleu Reglisse, La Chapelle Du Port, Solo show

3 - 22 July 2012
Beaumont de Lomagne, L'Art D'Ici

2 - 31 March 2012
Montauban, Galerie Le Sphinx, Solo show

5 - 24 July 2011
Beaumont de Lomagne, L'Art D'Ici

5 April - 12 May 2011
Societe General, Valence D'Agen

15 Nov 2010 - 1 Dec 2011
Bardigues, Auberge de Bardigues,

25 - 28 Octob...