Victoria Horkan

Victoria Horkan is a British contemporary artist known for her richly textured, expressive paintings that explore memory, imagination, sanctuary and our emotional relationship with the natural world.

Working predominantly in oils and mixed media, Horkan builds highly tactile surfaces through layers of colour, gestural movement and sculptural organic forms. Water is a recurring presence within her work — sometimes suggesting freedom and weightlessness, at other times the feeling of being submerged or overwhelmed.

This relationship with imagination has deeply personal origins. Growing up within a turbulent home, Horkan discovered the ability to retreat into private imagined worlds, becoming absorbed by colour, pattern and shape. What began instinctively as a form of escape has gradually become an important language within her paintings.

Forms resembling petals, coral, foliage, wings and underwater life emerge and disappear across the canvas, yet Horkan deliberately leaves them unresolved. A flower to one viewer may become a coral reef, a landscape or a half-remembered place to another.

Her background in textile design can be seen in her fascination with surface, repetition and materiality, while her distinctive use of intense col...

BA (Hons), Bretton Hall College, West Yorkshire, UK
MA, University of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, UK

Selected Exhibitions & Art Fairs

2026 — Never Enough Colour, Eclectic Gallery, Fitzrovia, London
2025 — Her Gaze, Eclectic Gallery, Fitzrovia, London
2025 — Eclectic Gallery, Fitzrovia, London
Affordable Art Fair 2026
The Other Art Fair, presented by Saatchi Art, Bristol — selected artist
2020 — Dogtooth Galleries, Cheshire
2020 — The Little Cheshire Gallery, Cheshire
2019 — Ricardo Van Parmar Gallery, Wilmslow
2019 — The Art Agency Gallery, Esher
2018 — George Thornton Gallery, Nottingham
2018 — La Galleria, Pall Mall, London

Selected Gallery Representation / Collaborations

Eclectic Gallery — Fitzrovia, London
Arkley Fine Art — UK
Saatchi Art — exhibiting artist; selected for The Other Art Fair and multiple curated collections

Selected Recognition

Selected artist — The Other Art Fair presented by Saatchi Art
Saatchi Art — All In The Details curated collection
Saatchi Art — Best Of December curated collection
Saatchi Art — New This Week curated collection
Featured on BBC One website
Works held in private collections internationally.