136. Amy Beager - The Pollinators I

2026
Coloured pencil and oil on paper
18 x 18cm
Signed on Verso

Amy Beager (b. 1988, Essex) is a painter living and working in London, UK. Her practice reimagines figurative painting through bold colour juxtapositions, sensuous brushwork, and compositions that balance romanticism with psychological intensity. Working between the classical and the contemporary, Beager creates paintings in which figures appear suspended between ecstasy and anguish, desire and isolation, independence and belonging.

Drawing inspiration from Renaissance painting and the dramatic poses of religious iconography, her figures possess an otherworldly presence while remaining emotionally immediate. Richly layered surfaces and vivid palettes contrast with the emotional complexity of her subjects, producing works charged with tension, intimacy, and theatricality. Themes of love, death, longing, and transformation recur throughout her paintings, which hover between dreamlike reverie and emotional confrontation.

Beager completed the Turps Banana Correspondence Course (2020–2021), following a BA in Fashion Design at Nottingham Trent University, UK (2007–2010), and a BTEC National Diploma in Art and Design (Distinction) at South Essex College (2006–2007).

Selected solo exhibitions include Salon at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery (2024); Slow Blink at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery (2024); Paradise at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Berlin (2023); a solo booth at Enter Art Fair with Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Copenhagen (2023); Swan Maidens at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London Bridge (2022); a solo booth at the London Art Fair (2022); Platform at Unit London (2022); Dreamers at Wilder Gallery (2021); and The Torches Burn Bright with Offshoot Arts x Artsy (2021).

Selected group exhibitions include People Watching with the The Ingram Collection at Dorset Museum & Art Gallery, Dorchester (2026); From Then to Now: 90 Years of Glyndebourne Posters at Glyndebourne Opera House (2024); Expo Chicago, USA (2024); Moons at Enari Gallery, Amsterdam (2023); Papier with Delphian Gallery in France (2023); The Spirit of Adventure with The Ingram Collection at West Horsley Place, Surrey (2023); Eye of the Collector, London (2023); Untitled Art Fair, Miami (2022); The Ingram Prize at Unit 1 Gallery Workshop, London (2022); Power of Femininity at Kutlesa Gallery, Switzerland (2022); and Antisocial Isolation curated by Delphian Gallery at the Saatchi Gallery, London (2020).

Her awards and residencies include the Palazzo Monti Residency, Italy (2024); winning the Ingram Prize (2022); the Clovermill Artist Residency, The Netherlands (2022); and the Delphian Gallery Open Call (2020).

Her work is held in collections including the Gnutti Beretta Collection, Italy; Palazzo Monti, Italy; the Noewe Foundation, Lithuania; The Ingram Collection, UK; and Soho House Collections.