Ewan Story
London-born, Ewan had a long career in advertising as an art director, a writer and a creative director before he decided to concentrate exclusively on his contemporary art practice several years ago. Ewan is the winner of several prestigious art prizes, the latest of which saw his work feature in 100 Emerging Artworks 2025, a global art award from the Arts to Hearts Project. He is also in line to win a prize as a Finalist/Honourable at the Almenara Art Prize, another international and widely recognised award. He is currently in the midst of a postgraduate MA in Fine Art at Falmouth University, and embracing new potential directions, collaborations and further possibilities to develop his practice.
Ewan Story is a British painter whose work explores the intricate interplay between imagination, memory, and the sensory experience of seeing. Working primarily in oil, Story constructs imagined worlds that unfold from a single spark – a place glimpsed, a gesture recalled, a feeling half-remembered – which then evolve into layered narratives populated by characters, spaces, and atmospheres. Like a novelist, he builds these worlds over time, allowing them to expand organically through research, reflection, and visual discovery.
At the heart of his practice lies a belief that painting is a form of storytelling – not through literal narrative, but through the slow, sensory language of light, texture, and emotion.
At the heart of his practice lies a belief that painting is a form of storytelling – not through literal narrative, but through the slow, sensory language of light, texture, and emotion. For Story, vision is never purely visual: it carries echoes of other senses, becoming a mode of remembering and a means of shared experience. Through paint, he seeks to reawaken the emotional charge of moments that feel lost yet remain residually present in collective memory. His work remains resolutely figurative, grounded in human presence and the desire to reconnect people with one another, with their environments, and with the layered histories that shape contemporary consciousness. Whether depicting intimate interiors, ambiguous landscapes, or imagined social scenes, Story’s paintings invite the viewer into a world that feels both familiar and elusive. At its core, his art is animated by a quiet longing, a search for connection, empathy, and the recovery of meaning in an increasingly dislocated and dematerialised world.
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