Stewarts’ artwork at 5 New Street Square, London has been carefully curated to reflect the firm’s innovative and forward-thinking mindset. It features a range of bold, abstract works that invite curiosity, conversation and interpretation. In line with Stewarts’ core values, key themes were developed to guide and unify the selection.

Clients often come to Stewarts at times of significant challenge, and the Hospitality-Driven, Nature-Infused theme focuses on creating a space that feels warm, grounding and restorative. The selected artworks are chosen for their connection to nature and are made using sustainable materials and methods. Organic textures, botanical references and earthy tones foster calm, and the uplifting colours enhance mood and atmosphere. The result is a welcoming environment designed to put clients at ease and highlight Stewarts’ thoughtful, human-centred approach.

The International Perspectives theme celebrates diversity in contemporary art, with a focus on London’s vibrant, international painting scene. Stewarts is proud to support rising talent from institutions such as the Royal College of Art. The collection showcases emerging artists from a range of backgrounds and disciplines, demonstrating Stewarts’ belief in the value of different viewpoints and experiences.

While abstraction is central to the collection, figurative and story-led elements have been included to add depth and humanise the collection. Balance is achieved by embracing a variety of mediums, including painting, photography and printmaking.

It is with great pleasure that we introduce this exciting selection of artists and open their work to new audiences enriching both the physical environment and embodying Stewarts’ commitment to innovation, excellence and a client-centred approach.

Oil on canvas
Dragica Carlin

Dragica Carlin is a London-based British-Croatian abstract painter know for her immersive, gestural works exploring light, movement and the unseen energies of existence. With a deeply intuitive practice – what Carlin calls a “second brain” – her paintings become a speculative, sensory journey. Her signature swirling brushstrokes, drawn from everyday visual cues and emotional impulse, reflect a dynamic interplay of chaos and order.

Acrylic on canvas
Joanna Gilbert

Joanna Gilbert is a London-based creating vibrant, large-scale abstract paintings that convey a visceral energy and a powerful message of mental wellness. Her art encourages authenticity and self-discovery, promoting the idea that true growth comes from looking inward rather than outward. Through bold colour, intuitive gestures, and emotion, Gilbert explores themes of self-belief, self-worth, and mindset. Her work serves as a visual reminder to realign with our inner truth and embrace who we are meant to be.

Glass, glass enamel and timber frame
Rebecca Newnham

Rebecca Newnham is a sculptor based in South West England whose work focuses on the transformative properties of glass. Newnham paints and fires enamel onto glass before cutting. Using glass as a faceted skin for sculpture, exploring themes of plant life, place, and organic systems, her practice bridges the physical and scientific with the spiritual and sensory, inviting viewers to reflect on the interconnectedness of nature and our perception of it.

Print on photographic paper
John Savoia

John Savoia is a Boston-based photographer whose photographic practice centres around concepts of continual documentation, community, time, and the self.​  Savoia reintroduces a sense of materiality to his digital photographs through imperfections, texture, and character into what is often considered a precise and clinical medium. John also explores analogue alternative processes, utilising hand-cut paper negatives, a variety of large-format cameras, and experimental image development.

Oil ink on paper
Natascha Maksimovic

Natascha Maksimovic is a Margate-based artist whose work reimagines the traditional Japanese art of Suminagashi marbling, blurring the boundaries between craft and contemporary art. Her studio produces striking, immersive works that fuse heritage techniques with a bold, modern aesthetic.  Each piece is a study in fluidity and intention—layered with avant-garde colour, hypnotic pattern, and a spirit of innovation that bridges past and present.

Oil ink on paper
Natascha Maksimovic

Natascha Maksimovic is a Margate-based artist whose work reimagines the traditional Japanese art of Suminagashi marbling, blurring the boundaries between craft and contemporary art. Her studio produces striking, immersive works that fuse heritage techniques with a bold, modern aesthetic.  Each piece is a study in fluidity and intention—layered with avant-garde colour, hypnotic pattern, and a spirit of innovation that bridges past and present.

Print on Hahnemühle Baryta paper
Aisah Seriki

Aisha Seriki is a Nigerian multi-disciplinary artist in based in London, known for her photo manipulation techniques exploring themes of truth, time, and the black body. Her practice is holistic and embodied, subverting formal photographic traditions while exploring the Yoruba Spiritual Tradition through themes of documentation, communication and creation. With these themes in mind, Aisha’s work challenges rigid concepts of self, creating space in the archive for a wider definition

Vintage computer punch cards, acrylic and pencil
Nicolas Gentry

As part of a generation that grew up with floppy disks, VHS tapes, polaroids and cassettes, Nicolas Gentry is inspired by the impact of internet culture. Drawing on recycled technological relics as the grounds for his portraits, such as vintage computer punch cards, Gentry creates a conversation between digital and analogue processes. These outdated objects are no longer in the spotlight, but we can use our understanding of the past to help us grasp the challenges of the future.

Print on photographic paper
Djibril Drame

Djibril Drame, a Senegalese visual artist, offers a transformative perspective on Africa’s rich and complex narrative. His work is an innovative exploration of historical and cultural themes, challenging conventional representations and presenting a reimagined African story. His approach highlights a commitment to sustainability but also redefines traditional artistic boundaries. By integrating these elements, Drame creates compelling visual dialogues that reflect on cultural knowledge, environmental consciousness, and the fusion of heritage with contemporary practices.

Acrylic and spray paint on canvas
Zdenek Konvalina

Born in the Czech Republic and based between London and Berlin, Zdenek Konvalina is a multidisciplinary artist whose abstract practice explores movement and light. Konvalina draws deeply from his background in performance, translating physical motion into visual form. The textured, three-dimensional surfaces of his works invite viewers to experience each piece dynamically, from multiple vantage points. Using spray paint as a primary medium, Konvalina creates subtle gradients and shifts in colour that evoke softness, luminosity, and the transient qualities of light.

Spray paint on birch panel
Jacob Wolff

Jacob Wolff is a London-based artist whose work explores the meditative potential of process and material. Wolff has developed a distinctive technique using shards of glass and spray paint, transferring pigment from wax paper onto panel. Influenced early on by the stained-glass windows of Winchester Cathedral and later by Giacomo Balla’s Futurist murals in Rome, his process is immersive and contemplative and is rooted in repetition and rhythm

Oil on linen
Layla Andrews

Layla Andrews is an artist working from Tracey Emin’s (TKE) studios in Margate. Her paintings explore the complexities of the human condition; the ways we navigate, endure, and make sense of the world. Rooted in emotional experience and story-telling, her paintings reflect the duality of our fragility and our resilience. Through layered symbolism, juxtapositions of joy and grief, familiarity with the surreal, Layla traces configurations of identity, memory and belonging.

Print on photographic paper
Djibril Drame

Djibril Drame, a Senegalese visual artist, offers a transformative perspective on Africa’s rich and complex narrative. His work is an innovative exploration of historical and cultural themes, challenging conventional representations and presenting a reimagined African story. His approach highlights a commitment to sustainability but also redefines traditional artistic boundaries. By integrating these elements, Drame creates compelling visual dialogues that reflect on cultural knowledge, environmental consciousness, and the fusion of heritage with contemporary practice

Watercolour, ink, and water, photographic transfer on silk
Erin Bird

Erin Bird is the creator of “waterprinting,” an experimental technique in which she submerges photographic prints, allowing the dissolution of imagery to blend with painterly abstraction. Her vibrant, abstract works fuse personal photographs, self-portraits, and expansive landscapes, placing the intimate within a broader national context. Bird’s work explores the tension between the tangible and the ethereal, creating a dynamic space that transcends the representational to reveal something more intimate and universal.

Oil in canvas
Rachel Deacon

Rachel Deacon is a fine artist based in London. She works through abstract and figurative painting with many figurative works being inspired by narrative, short story, poem extracts. Her abstract works explore the rhythmic arrangement of abstract geometric forms, overlaying shapes and soft colours. The negative spaces work to create harmony and direction within the composition. She uses the precision of geometry to create an opposition to the simplicity of the gentle shapes.

Oil on canvas
Karl Bielik

With his studio based in London, Karl Bielik is a painter working with oil as his primary medium. His pieces are created in series, with the artist working simultaneously on different paintings. This process allows Bielik to experiment with similar chromatic palettes and gestures while varying the paintings’ scale and support. The artist’s practice is primarily focused on the physical act of painting rather than the completion of each piece. The final stage of an artwork is established through a process of contemplation and inaction, in strong contrast with their creation process.