Adam Hedley (b 1985, High Wycombe, UK) lives and works in Bristol, where he currently has a studio at BV Studios.

Adam’s amorphic and free-form compositions operate in the space between nature, figuration, and abstraction. Building up his paintings in colour washes and dry brushed layers, influenced by modernist and colour field methodologies, Adam works with traces of an image, grappling with interior and exterior space, recognisable forms, and a pushing and pulling between one place and time and another. His paintings’ textured and blurry surfaces suggest a slow methodical approach and conjure up a spiritual and meditative practice engaged with reality, fragments of history, memory, ancient practices and reimagined spaces.

Alongside his beautiful oil paintings on canvas, Adam’s practice include works in watercolour and gouache on paper, as well as drawings in charcoal.

Adam has exhibited at Irving Contemporary twice, in our online exhibition INCANDESCENT (2021) and then in our three-person show TIME, BEING alongside David Abbott and Jon Ridge (May 2022). Adam currently has a group of works on paper available as part of our PAPIER: WORKS ON PAPER collection.