Made by Gunther

Where it happens

The Studio

A high-ceilinged room with a wall of drying canvases, a swivel chair, and a floor that has become a painting of its own.

Studio address

V22 · 5 Crown Close

Hackney Wick · London E3 2JH · visits by appointment

Wide view of the V22 studio: pitched ceiling, canvases stacked against the walls, blue armchairs at the back.

Studio

A shared studio at V22 in Hackney Wick — pitched roof, industrial lighting, finished pieces leaning three deep against every wall. Enough space to lay large canvases flat on the floor and walk around them.

Materials

Heavy-body and liquid acrylics, gesso, torn paper, magazine fragments. Brushes are secondary — most marks come from palette knives, cardboard edges, bare hands, or straight from the bottle onto the canvas.

Bottles of acrylic paint clustered on a floor covered in bright drips and splatters.
A black leather swivel chair in front of large, densely layered abstract paintings.

Looking

One chair, pointed at the wall. Half of the practice is painting; the other half is sitting with the work until it tells me what it needs — or when it's done.

Light

North light through the pitched roof windows — soft, even, unflattering in the best possible way. Colour looks like itself in this room.

Pitched skylight windows above the studio, letting in soft daylight.
A large square canvas lying on the studio floor, covered in poured and flung layers of yellow, orange, blue and red paint.

Working

Some paintings are built on the wall. Others are laid flat on the floor and worked from above — paint poured, flung, and pushed until the canvas becomes a field of colour rather than a picture of something.

Studio visits at V22, 5 Crown Close, Hackney Wick, London E3 2JH are by appointment — please get in touch via the contact page.