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Contemporary printmaker & figurative artist

James Joslin is a figurative artist and printmaker based between Hastings and London, England. Working across oil painting and etching, his practice is centred on the creation of intimate depictions exploring presence, vulnerability and the human figure. His work has been shown at the Kensington + Chelsea Art Week, Towner Gallery, The Phillips Collection (Cadaquésan Landscape), and the Singapore, Melbourne, Brunswick and Tasmanian International Festivals of Art (Hatta).

Image © Raphaël Neal

Etching subscription for 2026

You can now subscribe to receive 5 individual prints throughout 2026. You will receive 4 etchings on paper throughout the year when they are created, to be delivered in March, July, September and December. Etching is a printmaking technique that dates back hundreds of years which results in a reproducible work of ink on paper. A waxy ground is rolled onto a metal plate which is then drawn into with a needle. The drawing exposes the metal below the wax so that when the plate

Towner Gallery residency

I’m delighted to have been chosen to be part of Eastbourne Towner Gallery ’s Open Plan: Summer Studio residency in August. Just announced as the host of next year’s Turner Prize, Towner will be opening up its ground floor studio as a workspace – a resource that I’m keen to make use of to explore the idea of scale in my work – and hosting a viewing at the end of the residency. The space will be open to the public for the duration. It's a free, drop-in event so you’ll have th

Benefits Supervisor Zooming

Last week I had the privilege of drawing model Sue Tilley over Zoom. Best known for Lucian Freud’s depictions of her in the 1990s (including Benefits Supervisor Sleeping , which set the record for the most expensive painting by a living artist sold at auction when it went for £17 million in 2008), Sue was also prominent on the 1980s club scene where she was a regular at nights such as the Wag Club and Taboo, run by her friend, the performance artist Leigh Bowery. It was Bower