LONDON ART FAIR
At the centre of Lincoln Townley’s Success collection stands a suite of six new London Banker paintings - rare works that capture the pulse of the city that has defined his life and practice.
For Townley, London is not a setting but a state of mind: a city of ambition and consequence, where wealth, risk and survival coexist. As recounted in his book The Hunger, his own experience of that world continues to inform the psychological charge of these paintings. It’s that same volatile energy of the city that animates Townley’s sweeping brushstrokes. The London Bankers are not portraits in any conventional sense - they embody the collective force of a metropolis driven by appetite and competition. Faces emerge from darkness with intensity, their surfaces layered and fractured, evoking both the seduction and the cost of success.
Colour plays its own symbolic role. Rich swathes of pigment suggest the allure of money and power, while bruised tones speak to the human cost beneath the glossy veneer. These canvases are not sentimental reflections of London, but raw interpretations of the forces that make it what it is: unforgiving, seductive, endlessly alive.
Presented for the first time at the London Art Fair 2026, these six canvases mark a defining statement within Townley’s ongoing exploration of power, identity and the human condition. They will remain testaments to the city’s power - and to Townley’s ability to turn its energy into art that endures.
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