Artist Danny Leyland talks about strategies for re-organizing paintings, working towards an archival approach to image-making, how drawing is informing his way forward, and more.

Danny Leyland (b.1994) is an artist and educator from Oxford, UK, currently based in London. His practice is led by painting, but also encompasses drawing, printmaking and writing.

A graduate of Edinburgh College of Art (2016), and the Royal College of Art (2024), Leyland has exhibited internationally, with highlights including RSA New Contemporaries (2017), Edinburgh Art Festival (2021), Contemporary Art Now, Ibiza (2024), and a solo presentation at Mare Karina, Venice (2025). His work is included in private and public collections, including the Royal College of Art’s special collections, and the Park Seo-Bo Foundation (Korea). Leyland was the winner of the Chadwell Award (2024), runner-up for the Jackson’s Art Prize (2024), a shortlisted artist for the Waverton Art Prize (2024), and has been a two-time awardee of the Elizabeth Greenshields Grant (2021, 2023). Leyland is the 2025-2026 Abbey Scholar at the British School in Rome. Since 2016, Leyland also works in a collaborative practice with the artist and curator Connie Hurley.

Danny’s work: dannyleyland.com

Danny’s Instagram: @danny_leyland

Reference links:

• Paul Nash, Landscape of the Megaliths (1937)

• Daumier reviewed by Merlin James (2014)

• Wings of a Butterfly exhibition at Ingleby (2025)

• Piero della Francesca, The Baptism of Christ (1437-1445)

• Pierre Bonnard, Le Boxeur (portrait de l'artiste) (1931)

• Timothy Hyman, The New World Made (2022)

• Edvard Munch, Self Portrait between the Clock and the Bed (1940-43)

• Pierre Bonnard, The C C Land Exhibition at Tate Modern (2019)

• Kim Ki-duk, Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring (2004)