Studio 1

An ongoing archive of the residencies

Henry Ward

17th to 31st August 2024

Henry is an artist, writer, and educator living in London. He works primarily as a painter, but also makes drawings and small sculptures. He is interested in exploring the language of paint by investigating the threshold between abstraction and representation.

His first substantial publication about his work, ‘Shed Paintings – Henry Ward’, was published in February 2021 by Hato Press. ‘Bethany’, published by Anomie in 2025,  is a monograph that focuses on the works he made whilst in residence at The Albers Foundation, USA (2023) and whilst in residence at Stephen Swindells Studio. The book features texts by Fritz Horstman and Jonathan Watkins and transcribed conversations with Jenni Lomax ad Amy Sillman. Henry is the Director for Freelands Foundation UK and launched the Freelands Painting Prize in 2020. In these images Henry was using a100 square metres of space, normally Studio 1 is 50 square metres in size. Further information on Instagram @henzward and henryhward.com

  • Henry contemplates works-in-progress

  • Henry used Golden acrylic paints, all the colours mixed in aluminium food trays

  • Henry continuously worked through his ideas in a sketchbook, using calligraphic marker pens

  • Work-in-progress to be further developed back in the UK

  • A fluid, layered approach to the development of the paintings

  • Corner (detail), acrylic on canvas 72.5cm x 60cm. Completed back in the UK, 2024

  • ‘Canary’ (detail), acrylic on canvas, 160cm x 120cm. Completed back in the UK, 2024

  • ‘Fanta’ (detail), acrylic on canvas, 160cm x 120cm. Completed back in the UK, 2024

  • ‘Tabard’ (detail), acrylic on canvas, 160cm x 120cm. Completed back in the UK, 2024

  • Henry and Stephen post conversation on painting

Liz Leggett

13th to 27th July 2024

Liz Leggett made a series of works on paper that incorporates both painting and drawing.  Her approach values spontaneity, energy and an immediacy to a specific encounter. Forms are alluded to and extracted from various sources, from personal histories to current affairs. Liz describes each work as a situation that is a representation of our time. A situation that aims to enlighten as well as play with subjectivities, paradoxically aiming to keep it light as well as attaining a depth of feeling.

Liz is represented by The Camp Gallery, Miami, USA. Liz was formerly the Director of Exhibitions at Museum of Contemporary Art, Westport, Connecticut, currently Liz is the Studio Director of the acclaimed Japanese artist Mariko Mori. Further information on Instagram @lizleggettart and lizleggett.com

  • Liz prepares her papers for the day’s work

  • ‘No Guts No Glory’ (detail). oil stick, acrylic and graphite on paper, 120cm x 150cm

  • ‘The Kids are Alright (Hoops)’ detail: oil stick, acrylic and graphite on paper, 120cm x 150cm

  • ‘Laughing (But Not Really) Despite of it All’ (detail), oil stick, acrylic and graphite on paper, 120cm x 150cm

  • ‘The Baggage of Bull by the Horns’ (detail), oil stick, acrylic and graphite on paper, 120cm x 150cm

  • ‘Tired in the Whelping Box’ (detail), oil stick, acrylic and graphite on paper, 120cm x 150cm

Lisa Kellner

7th to 21st June 2025

Lisa Kellner's work explores the relationships between human activity and place; manifesting itself in the experience of perception and reflections on the perception of experience. This sense of mirroring experience is realised in compositions that incorporate chance and expressive mark-making balanced with a minimalist approach that unfolds with passages of flat shapes that are inspired by the surroundings. Further information on Lisa's work can be found at lisakellner.com 

Lisa quickly settled into a daily pattern during her residency, working everyday in the studio, starting around 8am and finishing around 6pm; and bracketing each day with early morning and evening walks in the Morvan that fed into her drawings and studio compositions. All works are acrylic and crayon on paper, various sizes.

Before moving to Deer Island in Maine Lisa lived and worked in New York for 20 years. Lisa is represented by four galleries, including, Art Space, New York @artspace, and Carver Hill Gallery, Maine @carver_hill_gallery.