Visual Art Swindon

01/09/2026

01/09/2026

Rob B () throws open the doors this week at Artsite & The Post Modern .
After three years of painting for the love of it - bold colour, simple shapes, and the satisfaction of getting something that feels true onto a canvas board - Swindon artist Rob B presents his first solo exhibition at Artsite in the Post Modern building, Theatre Square, Swindon.
Rob B’s work sits firmly in that lively local tradition of amateur and outsider art: untrained, unfiltered, and made because it needed to be made. Faces, hearts and abstract figures arrive in flat, punchy blocks of pink, yellow, blue and gold. A kintsugi heart is repaired in gold “with the yes of determination never to let it happen again.” A smiling yellow profile is all curve and colour. The pictures are direct, a little raw, and surprisingly tender. They look like someone working things out in public - and inviting you to stand in front of them and feel something too.
That generosity runs through the show itself. Rob B is quick to thank the people who got him here: his wife and five children, fellow artists and .me, and Artsite for giving the work a proper home. He has already shown work “in the wild” around Swindon; this weekend is the first time the whole body of it hangs together. All proceeds from sales of the artworks go to Prospect Hospice, which has provided free end-of-life care across Swindon and north-east Wiltshire since 1980.
Come for the paintings, stay for the community - and leave knowing the sale of a piece helps a local charity that really needs it.
‘LORN’, Solo Exhibition of Rob B
Post Modern Building, Artsite, Theatre Square, Swindon SN1 1QN
Opening night (open invitation): Thursday 3 September, 6–9pm
Friday 4 & Saturday 5 September: 12pm–6pm
Instagram: instagram.com/artformeat50
Please note. Works pictured on our posts are just an example of Rob B’s collection. Works pictured here may not appear in the current exhibition.
Pictured - Rob B at Swindon Arts Fringe 2025.
Please visit the exhibition for more info.

01/09/2026

Rob B ( ) throws open the doors this week at Artsite & The Post Modern with 'LORN'.
After three years of painting for the love of it - bold colour, simple shapes, and the satisfaction of getting something that feels true onto a canvas board - Swindon artist Rob B presents his first solo exhibition at Artsite in the Post Modern building, Theatre Square, Swindon.
Rob B’s work sits firmly in that lively local tradition of amateur and outsider art: untrained, unfiltered, and made because it needed to be made. Faces, hearts and abstract figures arrive in flat, punchy blocks of pink, yellow, blue and gold. A kintsugi heart is repaired in gold “with the yes of determination never to let it happen again.” A smiling yellow profile is all curve and colour. The pictures are direct, a little raw, and surprisingly tender. They look like someone working things out in public - and inviting you to stand in front of them and feel something too.
That generosity runs through the show itself. Rob B is quick to thank the people who got him here: his wife and five children, fellow artists and .me, and Artsite for giving the work a proper home. He has already shown work “in the wild” around Swindon; this weekend is the first time the whole body of it hangs together. All proceeds from sales of the artworks go to Prospect Hospice, which has provided free end-of-life care across Swindon and north-east Wiltshire since 1980.
Come for the paintings, stay for the community - and leave knowing the sale of a piece helps a local charity that really needs it.
‘LORN’, Solo Exhibition of Rob B
Post Modern Building, Artsite, Theatre Square, Swindon SN1 1QN
Opening night (open invitation): Thursday 3 September, 6–9pm
Friday 4 & Saturday 5 September: 12pm–6pm
Instagram: instagram.com/artformeat50
Please note. Works pictured on our posts are just an example of Rob B’s collection. Works pictured here may not appear in the current exhibition.
Please visit the exhibition for more info.

01/09/2026

Rob B () throws open the doors this week at Artsite & The Post Modern with 'LORN'.
After three years of painting for the love of it - bold colour, simple shapes, and the satisfaction of getting something that feels true onto a canvas board - Swindon artist Rob B presents his first solo exhibition at Artsite in the Post Modern building, Theatre Square, Swindon.
Rob B’s work sits firmly in that lively local tradition of amateur and outsider art: untrained, unfiltered, and made because it needed to be made. Faces, hearts and abstract figures arrive in flat, punchy blocks of pink, yellow, blue and gold. A kintsugi heart is repaired in gold “with the yes of determination never to let it happen again.” A smiling yellow profile is all curve and colour. The pictures are direct, a little raw, and surprisingly tender. They look like someone working things out in public - and inviting you to stand in front of them and feel something too.
That generosity runs through the show itself. Rob B is quick to thank the people who got him here: his wife and five children, fellow artists and .me, and Artsite for giving the work a proper home. He has already shown work “in the wild” around Swindon; this weekend is the first time the whole body of it hangs together. All proceeds from sales of the artworks go to Prospect Hospice, which has provided free end-of-life care across Swindon and north-east Wiltshire since 1980.
Come for the paintings, stay for the community - and leave knowing the sale of a piece helps a local charity that really needs it.
‘LORN’, Solo Exhibition of Rob B
Post Modern Building, Artsite, Theatre Square, Swindon SN1 1QN
Opening night (open invitation): Thursday 3 September, 6–9pm
Friday 4 & Saturday 5 September: 12pm–6pm
Instagram: instagram.com/artformeat50
Please note. Works pictured on our posts are just an example of Rob B’s collection. Works pictured here may not appear in the current exhibition.
Please visit the exhibition for more info.

01/09/2026

Jeff Finnie ) fills the .ltd window 3/09/26 (visible day & night in Theatre Square, Swindon) with layered mixed-media works built from music, memory and whatever arrives on the canvas.

Born in Rotherham, now based in Swindon, he treats making as both survival and story: a way to stay present through pain and restriction, and a way to let songs, videos and pop icons - Madonna’s endless reinventions especially - collide with stencils, collage, spray and found fragments until the piece starts talking back. Nothing is planned in advance; backgrounds are thrown down, images and lyrics appear, arrows, faces and sheet music accumulate, and each chaotic surface becomes a small autobiography of sound.

One canvas in the window is built around fame, image and looking back. Over a scratched, filmic portrait sit the lines “I’m in heaven”, “Look up here!!” and “Everybody knows me now”, framed by a strip of cinema sprockets. The words belong to Bowie’s Lazarus, but Finnie has pulled them into a Madonna-shaped story of constant self-reinvention - the mistress of style changes, the public face that keeps being remade. Purple overlays, geometric scratches and a halved, watching gaze give the piece the feel of a video still that has been lived in rather than simply printed.

Another work turns the body into a score. A dress-form torso in the studio is wrapped in torn pages of sheet music, stained pink and tightly collaged so that notation follows the ribs and shoulders. Music is not only the subject here; it is the skin. Around it sit the tools of the process - paints, stencils, bottles - the same messy, additive method Finnie describes throw something down, wait, add, and let the piece grow until it is alive.

A third surface is cooler and more diagrammatic: overlapping profile silhouettes, arrows firing in opposite directions, swirl fields and mechanical or circuit-like drawings in cyan and deep blue. Minds or identities seem to pass through one another inside a system that is part blueprint, part weather. The stencil grain and the opposing arrows keep the image restless, as if the work itself is still deciding which way to move.

01/09/2026

Jeff Finnie ( ) fills the .ltd window 3/09/26 (visible day & night in Theatre Square, Swindon) with layered mixed-media works built from music, memory and whatever arrives on the canvas.

Born in Rotherham, now based in Swindon, he treats making as both survival and story: a way to stay present through pain and restriction, and a way to let songs, videos and pop icons - Madonna’s endless reinventions especially - collide with stencils, collage, spray and found fragments until the piece starts talking back. Nothing is planned in advance; backgrounds are thrown down, images and lyrics appear, arrows, faces and sheet music accumulate, and each chaotic surface becomes a small autobiography of sound.

One canvas in the window is built around fame, image and looking back. Over a scratched, filmic portrait sit the lines “I’m in heaven”, “Look up here!!” and “Everybody knows me now”, framed by a strip of cinema sprockets. The words belong to Bowie’s Lazarus, but Finnie has pulled them into a Madonna-shaped story of constant self-reinvention - the mistress of style changes, the public face that keeps being remade. Purple overlays, geometric scratches and a halved, watching gaze give the piece the feel of a video still that has been lived in rather than simply printed.

Another work turns the body into a score. A dress-form torso in the studio is wrapped in torn pages of sheet music, stained pink and tightly collaged so that notation follows the ribs and shoulders. Music is not only the subject here; it is the skin. Around it sit the tools of the process - paints, stencils, bottles - the same messy, additive method Finnie describes throw something down, wait, add, and let the piece grow until it is alive.

A third surface is cooler and more diagrammatic: overlapping profile silhouettes, arrows firing in opposite directions, swirl fields and mechanical or circuit-like drawings in cyan and deep blue. Minds or identities seem to pass through one another inside a system that is part blueprint, part weather. The stencil grain and the opposing arrows keep the image restless, as if the work itself is still deciding which way to move.

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