Artsy's editors opened 5 Artists on Our Radar in March 2026, published on 17 March, with Pippa El-Kadhi Brown. The monthly column picks out artists whose work is drawing attention, and this edition placed her beside Michelle Paterok, Astrid Specht Seeberg, Joanna van Son and Alexandria Tarver.
Artsy describes the London based artist's oil paintings as driven by a sense of wanderlust. Her earlier works focus on the intimacy of domestic interiors, while her latest paintings venture outdoors, drawing on the landscapes of Tuscany. The column explains that this shift was informed by her time at the La Serena Residency the previous summer with Tabari, her representing gallery, and cites the 2025 diptych Anther and Stigma. It reads her loose, intuitive brushwork as producing hazy, dreamlike scenes that explore the human psyche, and notes that her work was then included in the group show The Hug at SARAHCROWN in New York.
Pippa El-Kadhi Brown is a London based artist with British and Iraqi heritage who studied painting at the University of Brighton and the Royal College of Art. Her dense, dreamlike paintings pull sensation up from beneath the surface, mixing romance, anxiety, humour and nostalgia. The Artsy selection reflects a widening international audience for the body of landscape work begun at La Serena. She is represented by Tabari.
