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The Inheritance, 2026
by Kelvin Jumanne @kevi_artz
55x40in Charcoal and oil pastel on 335 gsm Coventry Rag Smooth paper
Now available @artsy

Created over more than 250 hours, this work honors braiding as an act of love, patience, and cultural preservation. In many African homes, braiding is a ritual through which mothers teach their daughters pride, identity, and belonging, a prayer passed from one hand to another.

The mother and daughter are rendered in black and white, while their clothing remains vivid. The blue-and-yellow Ankara fabric and the daughter's red dress become declarations of pride, suggesting that culture endures as generations change.

At its heart, the work captures the intimacy between a mother and child, a love formed strand by strand. It presents the mother as her daughter's first keeper of heritage, passing history forward through the gesture of her hands.

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3 months ago

The Pink Waves Hold Our Secrets, 2025
by Tianhao @tianhaoart
50x40cm Oil on canvas
Now available @artsy

The Pink Waves Hold Our Secrets is one of Tianhao’s most personal works, a reflection on how unspoken feelings take form and weight.

The waves are tender, yet they carry the burden of things left unsaid: griefs, longings, secrets, moments never fully shared. What appears calm on the surface is charged with emotional undercurrents.

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Loyalty, 2025
by Linzhibin @linzhibin_art
88x68cm Oil on canvas
Available @artsy

Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.

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7 months ago

Bonjour, la lune, 2026
by Tianhao @tianhaoart
40x50cm Oil on canvas
Now available @artsy

“Just five more minutes with the moon.”

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Open Window, Lofoten, 2026
by Haotian @htart.studio
50x40cm Acrylic on canvas
Now available @artsy

As night deepens, the colors seem to come alive.

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19 hours ago

The Dance Class, 2026
by Piero Tianli @kbfineartgallery
120x100cm Oil on canvas
Now available @artsy

“What seems so hard now will someday be your warm-up.”

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INFLATABLE DEVOTION, 2026
by Elina Tailor @elinatailor.art
150x150cm Oil on canvas
Now available @artsy

“We often trust something because everyone around us trusts it too. The longer it stands, the harder it becomes to imagine it falling. And once we’ve built our lives around it, looking away can feel easier than asking what is really holding it up.”

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21 hours ago

Standoff, 2026
by Hetian @kbfineartgallery
80x115cm Oil on canvas
Now available @artsy

Strength doesn’t always decide who gets the right of way.

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8 days ago

📣 ANNOUNCEMENT: ELINA TAILOR JOINS KB FINE ART & ARTSY🥂

We’re delighted to welcome Elina to the gallery and introduce her paintings on Artsy. 🤍 @kbfineartgallery @artsy

Elina @elinatailor.art is a girl’s girl, with an almost angelic sensuality. We’re drawn to her, and just as taken with the mind behind the paintings. Paintings like Collect Bags Not Feelings, I Look Good on Instagram, and Inflatable Faith give us plenty to talk about. There’s pleasure in their wit, and more to consider beneath that first impression.

Working intuitively with familiar symbols, Elina allows the act of painting to lead her beyond a predetermined message. We want to follow that process more closely, to understand her decisions and hear what she makes of the images she creates.

She will open our Artist Focus, a recurring series within our program featuring conversations with artists we work with and those we hope to welcome. Through these conversations, we’ll get inside their thinking, giving their practices the time and attention they deserve.

Beginning with Elina we will together go through the collective girlhood, the admiration, the desire to see another woman succeed: all of it belongs in the relationship we’re building with her.

More of Elina, and more from Elina, soon. ✨

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Parenting III, 2026
by Tianhao @tianhaoart
80x80cm Oil on canvas
Now available @artsy

In Parenting III, a young woman gathers an oversized coat around her body, pink ruffles framing her watchful face. Across the water, a window glows. Above her, an enormous cat leaps through the sky.

The coat recalls a mother adding one more layer against the cold. Here, that care almost conceals the person it protects. The daughter holds it close, suggesting how difficult it can be to set aside something given with love, even when it becomes a burden. Nearby fishing nets echo this tension between protection and restriction.

The water suggests a quieter distance: the things a daughter leaves unsaid to spare her mother worry, until sharing her life becomes harder. Above her, the cat moves with impossible freedom, perhaps embodying her wish to live without guilt and return home as the person she has become.

The painting’s tenderness lies in the possibility that both fear losing each other. Growing up asks the daughter to choose without feeling ungrateful, and the mother to discover that being needed less does not mean being loved less. The window remains lit, holding the hope that a life her mother never imagined can still be welcomed home.

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8 days ago

Sold before we could properly show it off, but such masterpiece still deserves to be seen❤️

Hockney’s Malibu, 2026
by Haotian @htart.studio
60x50cm Acrylic on canvas

“I step out of my kitchen door and there, right here, is the sea.” — David Hockney, That’s the Way I See It

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Blessed, 2026
by Tianhao @tianhaoart
65x80cm Oil on canvas
Now available @artsy

Against the grey sky and still water, the fire offers inviting warmth and light. Its colour draws us across the painting; we can feel the heat. It is unsettling to realize how readily we are drawn to the thing consuming everything it touches. The blackened straw lies beside the brightest flames: attraction and consequence are siblings, born of the same fire.

That feeling can be familiar. Think of work you love enough to keep giving it another evening. It gives you purpose, and being needed feels good. Gradually, the people you meant to see stop expecting you, and the things you planned to do keep getting postponed. You can recognize what it is taking from your life and still look forward to returning the next morning. The satisfaction that drew you in is still there. You see the fire, and still, like a moth drawn to its light, you move closer.

The fire remains beautiful as he moves away. To escape its reach, he has to step into cold water. The first thing he will feel is the shock of losing the comfort and warmth that made him want to stay.

The painful truth is that what is consuming you may also be what gets you through the day. Leaving asks you to face life without the comfort you have learned to rely on. You understand the danger and still hesitate at the water’s edge. Staying lets you postpone the pain of separation, but you pay for that delay with more of yourself.

His next step may plunge him into a cold so sharp that he aches for the warmth he has just left. Only later might he understand what staying would have cost him: how close he came to losing everything, and how blessed he was to leave while he still could.

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