Latest News, Interviews & Events

Emma Coyle has been working in the industry for over 20 years. We had the pleasure to speak with Emma to discuss her work and current projects.

This year's Slamdance Film Festival featured the documentary “With Peter Bradley”. It's a shamelessly untamed, compassionate, and moving film about a truly significant artist. Read our full review!

A series of exhibition and events to be announced

Occhi Arts and Entertainment and Phoenix FTA Limited are inviting artists from around the world to creatively engage with key topics of concern at the COP27 Climate Summit, which will take place in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt from the 06th – 18th of November 2022.

Sumali Piyatissa: Behind My Eyes

In Sumali Piyatissa's debut solo show with Occhi Contemporary, “Behind Her Eyes” features a range of abstract artworks that are inspired by nature and everyday life. The show runs until the 25th of September 2022 .

We invite you to visit our official online store for merchandise and a selection of clothing and accessories in partnership with some of our featured artists.

Art & Sol runs until the end of July at the new Ealing Project venue. The venue has just opened and will provide a home and platform for the creative talent that exists in the area and beyond.

Eugene Ankomah is an internationally respected visual artist, mentor, and personality who is both known for his many innovative but unpredictable styles of art, as much as for his ever-changing self-created “Art Persona” and evolving fashion sense.

This interview forms part of a series of features on artists who participated in our ‘Together for Our Planet’ initiative.

Luisa Rivera is a London-based artist, illustrator and author originally from Chile. Most of her work is created with water-based paints and her illustrations appear in books, magazines, newspapers, and art exhibitions. We caught up with her to discuss her work . For further information, visit https://www.luisarivera.cl/

Mary was born in 1975 and lives in Stavropol, Russia. She graduated from the art school and the College of Technology and Design of the Technological University. A. A. Leonov in Moscow. Mary wanted to study and have an art career, but during difficult times in Russia in the 90s change her direction and became a Doctor of Economics, working for more than 20 years as a chief financier. We had the opportunity to speak to her about her exhibition and publication entry titled,’ Oceans of Time’

Occhi Contemporary represented artist Sumali (Buki) Piyatissa is a self-taught artist from Colombo, Sri Lanka. She is an accountant by profession and her love for art birthed a keen desire to pursue it further, where she gave up her daily work as a financial advisor and took up art professionally.

This interview forms part of a series of features on artists who participated in our ‘Together for Our Planet’ initiative. The ‘Together for Our Planet’ exhibition and publication is a collaboration between Occhi Arts and Entertainment and Phoenix FTA Limited, a UK-based sustainability strategy consultancy.

We are happy to share the news that three paintings from our featured artist Michael Kwong have been accepted by the United Nations Environment Programme and will be displayed at its Nairobi headquarters.

This forms part of a series of Caribbean Fine Art Fair events in collaboration with Occhi Arts & Entertainment.

Occhi’s David Emmanuel Noel and CaFA Fair Director Anderson M. Pilgrim discuss printmaking with guest artists Sadikisha Sandra Collier. Pepe Coronado, Paloma Obergh, and Taurus Cousins

The artist discusses his exhibition and publication entry with curators Ina Ballik and David Emmanuel Noel

Occhi Contemporary Art is proud to present the profound and engrossing works of Alan James Weiss.

It's a pleasure to now represent Sumali ( Buki) She is an Accountant by profession and her love for art birthed a keen desire to pursue it further, where she gave up her daily work as a financial advisor and took up art professionally.

The renowned annual Caribbean Fine Art Fair, (CaFA), now in its 12th year, returns virtually and in person to Barbados this March, with a focus on the works of over four dozen Black and Caribbean artists, and a spotlight also on the hot subject of NFTs.

This month, we’re proud to showcase the work of Deborah Eve Alastra
Described by some as Impressionistic or Village Naive, Deborahs' paintings have touches of whimsy displaying her vision of the world, often seeing beauty in everyday subject matter.

This interview forms part of a series of features on artists who participated in our ‘Together for Our Planet’ initiative.

This project is a collaboration between Occhi Arts and Entertainment and Phoenix FTA Limited, a UK-based sustainability strategy consultancy. Inspired by the UK Creative Earth Competition, Occhi Arts and Entertainment and Phoenix FTA Limited invited young artists from around the world to creatively engage with key topics of concern at the COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow. The initiative provided young artists with a renewed opportunity to visually express their views to world leaders and community stakeholders by producing 2D artwork

This is Nigerian born Artist O Yemi Tubi Debut Show with Occhi Contemporary

He has exhibited widely in solo and group shows across the UK and mainland Europe since 1981. Colin is oil painter and an established watercolorist, elected to the Royal Watercolour Society in 2009 with work featured in numerous collections, including Queen Elizabeth’s. We had the great pleasure to speak to him about his career and current projects.