Severence #1 (2026)

'Severance #1' by British abstract artist Tim Willcox marks a decisive shift within the artist’s evolving abstract practice. Moving away from overt narrative and environmental storytelling, this work embraces a quieter, more intuitive language where form, gesture and atmosphere take precedence over explanation.

Softly fractured planes of colour merge and drift across the surface, intersected by fluid, almost anatomical lines that suggest movement, memory and internal landscapes rather than external places. Strong traces of stencilled mark-making and collaged texture emerge, scraped back from below and then recede, creating a sense of transition and release. The composition feels both grounded like a new start, as though something familiar is being gently loosened for the next stage.

With Severance, I wanted to step away from storytelling and allow the work to breathe on its own terms. Rather than guiding the viewer through a narrative, I’ve focused on creating space for feeling, quiet connection and above all purposeful ambiguity.

I wanted a sense of loosening here, of gently untying from earlier ideas and trusting the language of paint to lead the way. The forms are softer, less defined as I like the way the shapes blend and are intentionally unresolved. They hover somewhere between structure and intuition, echoing that moment of internal shift I am looking for as my work stays intentionally fluid. As of now I do not have a fixed point in my sights and I like that a lot - this painting feels like a pause. A reset. A step toward a more instinctive way of working where emotion, texture and movement speak first and meaning follows later, ...if it chooses to at all.