Florence Hutchings

Florence Hutchings (b. 1996, Kent) is a British painter whose work centres on the domestic interior and the everyday objects that inhabit it. Clothes rails, chairs, tables, shoes, musical instruments, flowers and studio clutter are repeatedly transformed through bold colour, flattened space and heavily worked surfaces, often hovering between still life, interior painting and abstraction.

Hutchings completed a Foundation Diploma at UCA Rochester before studying at the Slade School of Fine Art, graduating with First Class Honours in 2019. During her studies she was awarded the Lynn Painter-Stainers Scholarship. She now lives and works in Margate, Kent.

Her paintings are built through a process of repeated adjustment, elimination and reconstruction. Oil paint is frequently combined with collage, oil bar and other materials, allowing forms to be shifted, covered and reintroduced as the composition develops. Hutchings has described this process as playful but also rooted in “elimination and reconstruction”, and the resulting works often retain a sense of their making through visible layers, edges and changes of surface.

Domestic space has remained central to her work. Rather than treating interiors simply as settings, Hutchings focuses on the accumulated objects, patterns and arrangements through which a room acquires character. Her 2024 Redfern exhibition Dressing Room explored clothing, shoes and musical instruments within the home, while more recent works have continued to examine furniture, chairs and the relationship between the body and the objects that surround it.

Hutchings first came to wider attention in 2019 when eight large-scale paintings were included in Kaleidoscope at the Saatchi Gallery and entered the collection of Charles Saatchi. That year she also undertook a residency at The Cabin in Los Angeles, culminating in a two-person exhibition with Danny Romeril. Since then she has exhibited widely in Britain and internationally, including in Germany, Finland, China, Taiwan and Korea.

Her solo exhibitions have included The Poetry of the Everyday at Beers London in 2019, Silhouetted Rooms at Makasiini Contemporary, Finland, and Body Clock in Seoul in 2023. In 2024 The Redfern Gallery presented her first solo exhibition with the gallery, Dressing Room, followed in 2025 by Her Studio at Asia Art Center, Taipei. Her work was also shown at Selfridges London in collaboration with Frieze from 2024 to 2025.

In 2026 The Redfern Gallery presented Under One Roof, a joint exhibition with Danny Romeril. Both artists live and work in the same house in Margate, with their studios separated only by a corridor, and the exhibition explored their shared interest in domestic life, inhabited spaces and the objects that accumulate around them.

Florence Hutchings is represented by The Redfern Gallery.