Pas Touche, 2024
We’re excited to share that Own Art has increased its loan threshold, meaning you can now purchase higher-value artworks (up to £5000!) and spread the cost, completely interest-free. Please note, this is only available to UK buyers.
To celebrate this change, we’ve curated a selection of six works by upcoming artists that can be purchased through the scheme.
Pas Touche, 2024 by Sophie Vallance Cantor
Sophie Vallance Cantor is a British artist, who creates portals into fantasy realms, worlds without rules, and liminal spaces where imagination is in control and everyday boundaries dissolve. Drawing on her lived experience as a female artist with insights from her autistic identity, Cantor sees her practice as an antidote to daily life, a place where cats transform into tigers and complex relationships can be explored through the safe distance of fantasy.
Monument, 2025 by Madison Skriver
Madison Skriver is an emerging artist who was born in Oregon and currently resides in Portland. Since childhood, her focus has been on painting; she wants her pieces to be portals into the surreal, showcasing the inherent mysticism of painting. Symbolism, time, and nostalgia are reoccurring themes within her work, brought to life through bright, bold colour palettes and the juxtaposition of flat, graphic elements and stylistic realism.
Interwoven, 2025 by Martha Zmpounou
Martha Zmpounou is a Greek visual artist known for her exploration of the human figure as a space for expression and transformation. Raised near the sea in Greece, Zmpounou was drawn to art from a young age, spending her childhood painting and drawing. Her journey as an artist solidified during her studies at fine art school, where she began to view herself as a lifelong practitioner of her craft.
The Comet, 2025 by Melody Tuttle
Melody Tuttle's intense oil paintings capture women in intimate, solitary moments, celebrating the beauty of everyday rituals. Her figures, bathed in warm hues, evoke a peaceful vibrancy, highlighting themes of self-reliance and female identity in her dreamlike compositions. The landscapes behind these figures - rolling hills, firey sunsets, and otherworldly skies - work to place the figures in Tuttle's paintings in a peaceful yet vibrant seclusion
Shelter, 2025 by Kayoon Anderson
Kayoon Anderson’s work may feature figures, but they are not presented as the central subject. Instead, people exist as part of the architectural fabric of the space, blurring the boundary between body and environment. Her compositions often depict imagined interiors—quiet, intimate spaces where identity unfolds subtly through structure, colour, and arrangement rather than overt narrative. This sensitivity to space reflects both her architectural training and her experience of a mixed-heritage upbringing.
Swans with Roses, 2026 by Kevin Sabo
Kevin Sabo is an American artist, known for works that feature exaggerated, almost satirical figures in lurid pinks, greens, and blues. His practice utilises contrast between soft and sharp, short and tall, to explore gender dynamics through the depiction of drag queens and suited men. His pieces not only explore the differences between them, but also work to give “femininity” the upper hand. Where his suited figures are seen urinating, or their anonymised bodies crammed into small spaces, the women in Sabo’s works dominate their worlds.
