Mark Curryer is a British artist whose atmospheric cityscapes have made him one of the most distinctive painters of urban life currently working in the UK. Based in a dedicated studio in Eastbourne, he paints London and New York at their most visually dramatic — after dark, in the rain, when artificial light multiplies across wet surfaces and the familiar city becomes something genuinely spectacular.
His technique is as unconventional as his subjects demand. He works with almost no conventional brushwork, instead using rollers, scrapers, and a wide range of improvised tools — literally any object that produces the mark he needs — to build the atmospheric textures that characterise his surfaces. Newsprint is incorporated into the paint layers, adding a further dimension of texture: some of the exposed paper is intentional, some occurs naturally where the rollers lay paint unevenly, the unpredictability of the process mirroring the unpredictability of urban life itself.
The paintings read as impressionistic at distance — all atmosphere and light and the blur of movement — but reveal on closer inspection areas of precise detail that anchor the eye and confirm the specific setting. The tension between these two modes of looking is central to his practice: the city experienced at speed from the outside, and the city observed in its specific particulars from within.
Trained in three-dimensional design at Eastbourne Art College, Curryer built a successful career before returning to painting full-time. He has exhibited across the UK with work selling worldwide, was named a finalist for Best Up and Coming Published Artist in 2018, and has shown at the Edinburgh Fringe. Available through Creed Gallery, Ascot, for collectors across Berkshire, Surrey, and London.
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