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Henry Glover (1997) is A London-based Painter and Ceramicist who won the Saatchi Art ‘Rising Star’ Award in 2020, naming him as one of the top 35 artists around the world under 35 years old.

Glover has exhibited his work across the country and his works are in private collections across the world, ranging from America to Europe and South Korea. Glover graduated from Wimbledon College of Arts in June 2020 with a BA (Hons) Fine Art: Painting, and has been actively exhibiting since, including his debut solo exhibition ‘Take Me Somewhere Nice’ at Liliya Art Gallery March/April 2021 and solo show 'The Knight's Tour' with Grove Collective at Backhaus Space in Berlin September 2022.

Primarily, Glover is an oil painter and ceramicist. He tends to focus on the interplay between the physical sensations of his materials and the raw emotions he experiences in his daily life and personal relationships. Currently Glover is concerned with shared feelings of introspection that have arisen during the recent pandemic and proven to catalyse the impacts of rumination and loneliness on the soul and psyche. 

His work draws upon the early mediaeval period and British folklore in providing subjects that are romantic but also comforting in their bold figurations and colourful origins. And recently Glover has found a natural progression into painting landscapes that lack figures. These lonely, desolate landscapes are imaginary and dreamlike. They reveal our aspirations, our desires and our fears. He enjoys being able to create snapshots of memories, particularly those quiet unsaid moments, and framing phrases and lyrics to this effect. His work is ultimately diaristic and he finds a cathartic release in the process and discovering classic, Romantic and banal themes that can be shared with others. Glover’s painting method is physical, and this physical process demonstrates the material qualities of his work. Hence, he views the process as much a key part of the painting as the final marks he makes when completing a work.

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