Dickon Drury's "Snail Cup with Fritillaries" vividly combines rich hues of orange, blue, and green against a muted pink background, creating a striking contrast. The composition features a blue cup with a snail beside it and patterned fritillary flowers emerging gracefully. The painting employs elements of surrealism and graphic simplicity, blending everyday objects into an uncanny yet familiar scene. Drury’s hyper-saturated style and meticulous detail turn ordinary subjects into symbols of unease and domesticity, reflecting on the hidden narratives within home life. ...
Dickon Drury creates hyper-saturated, large-scale oil paintings of domestic interiors, populated by everyday objects such as books, computers, kitchenware, and open food. His work captures the quiet tension of domestic spaces, balancing familiarity with a subtle sense of unease. Objects—often stacked, flattened, or skewed—suggest the presence of unseen inhabitants and hint at routines, anxieties, and the traces of daily life. Through vibrant color, dramatic light, and stark shadows, Drury heightens the surreal quality of otherwise ordinary environments. His meticulous attention to detail transforms mundane items into symbols of human behavior, desire, and impermanence. The interplay between order and disorder in his compositions invites viewers to reflect on the psychological and temporal dimensions of home life. Themes of self-sufficiency, preservation, and regeneration run throughout his work, approached with both tenderness and humor. By turning familiar interiors into carefully orchestrated, almost theatrical scenes, Drury prompts consideration of how the arrangement of objects and spaces can reveal the inner life, emotional rhythms, and quiet narratives of those who inhabit them. ...
Founded in 2011, Kendall Koppe is a Glasgow-based gallery committed to championing under-represented voices in contemporary art, with a particular focus on queer and female artists. The gallery fosters a space where personal narratives intersect with broader cultural, historical, and social contexts, while also advocating for Scotland’s role in the international visual arts landscape.
