Stokes Croft, Bristol’s cultural quarter, is a magnet for artists and musicians in the city. The area is known for its sense of community, fierce loyalty towards independent shops and its street art, including Banksy’s famous piece ‘The Mild Mild West’. With many of th...

This week we look back at an interview from the archive with Bristol based artist Elaine Jones, in which she reflects on the impact a trip to Tresco, Isles of Scilly had on her practice, finding particular inspiration in the drama of the shifting weather patterns on th...

First Contemporary are looking forward to the Affordable Art Fair Hampstead (16th – 19th June), where we will be exhibiting fantastic new work from a range of talented painters and sculptors. One of the artists we will be showing at Hampstead is Bristol based painter A...

Calo Carratalá is an artist with a deep love for landscape, particularly snow covered mountain peaks, where he is drawn to their magnificence, unpredictable weather and sense of solitude. Calo will be exhibiting a new series of paintings with First Contemporary at The...