Chloe Culley/ Summer Issue

Chloe Culley is a British painter whose practice focuses on image rejection, material sensitivity, and the interplay between movement and surface. Working primarily with oil on canvas, she completes each painting in a single session to preserve immediacy and gesture. Her process involves weeks of surface preparation, building layers of gesso to create a responsive ground.

Her work explores monochromatic spaces, often using greyscale tones to evoke ambiguity and openness. Drawing plays an important role, helping her develop compositional language and mark-making. Culley’s paintings create tension between presence and absence, movement and stillness, inviting close attention to subtle surface nuances.

She holds a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from Anglia Ruskin University’s Cambridge School of Art, graduating with First Class Honours in 2023. As the first member of her family to attend university, her achievements mark a significant personal milestone. She has won the Dr Supanee Gazeley Art Prize and the Freelands Painting Prize 2023. She is currently pursuing a Masters in Fine Art at City and Guilds of London Art School on a Leverhulme Scholarship.

Culley has exhibited in group shows across the UK and currently lives and works in Kent, UK.