Lola Stong-Brett (b.1996) is an artist from London, currently based in Margate. Lola’s oil paintings use instinctual, gestural mark-making, to express emotion drawn from her immediate surroundings. Like rose-tinted windows, her paintings depict altered realities of our everyday that at first appear playful yet carry more sinister undertones exploring larger social themes looking at class, memory, and nostalgia. Often inspired by cartoons, graffiti, and tattoo culture, words or forms tend to repeat throughout Lola’s work and visuals based on Max Fleischer's cartoons appear in her paintings, depicting the gritty lives of everyday people. Lola likes to think of her work as constantly moving yet confined. Inspired by council estates, stairwells, and brickwork (as well as beds and pool tables) she uses visuals from her upbringing that feel inherently important to her within her work, giving works a domestic familiarity, yet also feeling potentially brutalist and concrete, which for Lola, feels like home.


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