Untitled IIDetails forthcoming
Scottish artist · East London
Paintings that hold
nothing back.
Raw figuration, fractured identity and human tension—built through colour, line, symbol and instinct. The work is grounded in R.P. Gribben’s original artistic language: Retractable Neo Realism.
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Distance · Vision · Intention
Potential · Memory · Perception · Transformation
Original artistic language
Retractable
Neo Realism
Visions of the future. Experiences of the past. Materialised in the present.
Retractable Neo Realism is a contemporary artistic language and a way of thinking. It is not bound to a single style, medium or aesthetic. It exists for works that resist permanent classification, moving freely between abstraction, figuration, geometry, realism and beyond.
At its core is the ability to separate moments, emotions and experiences; revisit them independently; view them from new perspectives; and reconnect them to understand the present as a whole. The past can be revisited without being relived. The future can be imagined without limitation. The present becomes the meeting point of both.
Retractable describes movement—backwards, forwards, inwards and outwards. The work can withdraw from certainty, transform and reappear in a new form. Meaning is fluid rather than fixed.
Neo Realism does not reproduce reality exactly as it is seen. It materialises reality as it is remembered, experienced, imagined, anticipated and felt.
“The mind does not move in a straight line. It revisits, reframes, restructures. Retractable Neo Realism is the art of that movement.”View the original concept statement ↗
Featured work · Available
T.P.M
(never g!v3 up)
Original painting
£10,000
A major large-scale work from R.P. Gribben’s earlier practice, combining figurative distortion, written fragments and architectural structure in an image of pressure, persistence and survival.
- Artist
- R.P. Gribben
- Dimensions
- 250 × 160 cm
- Medium
- Acrylic paint, acrylic markers, spray paint, permanent marker, tattoo ink and ballpoint pen on canvas
- Status
- Original available · £10,000
Provenance & archive
From the studio
to Paris.
T.P.M (never g!v3 up) is an award-winning work with a documented exhibition and publication history across Europe.
- Exhibited five times across Europe
- ART Shopping — Salon International d’Art Contemporain, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, 18–20 October 2024
- Print edition sold during the Paris exhibition
- Published with the artist’s profile in Art Anthology III: Madrid Edition, October 2021
Selected work
Untitled VII
Selected works
Paintings
A selection from R.P. Gribben’s painting practice, spanning raw figuration, symbolic portraiture and evolving forms of Retractable Neo Realism.
Untitled VDetails forthcoming
Untitled VIDetails forthcoming
Untitled VIIDetails forthcoming
Untitled VIIIDetails forthcoming
Untitled IXDetails forthcoming
Untitled XDetails forthcoming
Untitled XIDetails forthcoming
Untitled XIIDetails forthcoming
Untitled XIIIDetails forthcoming
Untitled XIVDetails forthcoming
Untitled XVDetails forthcoming
Exhibitions
The work
in public.
Selected moments from exhibitions and installations—showing the paintings in the spaces where they are encountered, discussed and experienced.
The artist
R.P. Gribben
R.P. Gribben is a Scottish artist based in East London. His paintings move between portraiture and abstraction, using forceful colour, exposed mark-making and recurring symbols to examine identity, pressure and the unstable space between inner and outer life.
The work keeps the evidence of its making visible. Scratches, revisions, written fragments and hard-edged gestures become part of the subject rather than something to conceal.
Enquiries
Original works,
exhibitions and commissions.
For original work, exhibition and commission enquiries, email artfulrog3r@icloud.com.