About

Brogan Bertie (b. 1995, South London) is a painter and artist working from his studio at TKE in Margate. 

Bertie’s art is about people, painting from life in order to offer an intimate and energetic insight into the sitters. Using the physicality of oil paint, Bertie creates rich and textural works that construct an honest and tender portrait of human connection and its complexity. There is no closure, no resolution, no feeling of having gotten to the bottom of something - the hunger for other people stretches before and after any one moment in time. There is a desperation to see people, to know them, to try to grab at their specificities. Bertie’s work speaks to an appetite for connection.