Winner of the Beck Future's Award in 2001, Tim Stoner's artwork is distinctive and ethereal. Almost other-worldly, or the product of a bygone age, the paintings celebrate leisure and life, presenting images of happiness and community. Creating an incredibly flat surface, Stoner employs overlapping thin layers of paint so that there is a sense of movement to the composition, the figures becoming less defined.

Working predominantly in Malaga and London, the artist uses found photographs as his source material. Fascinated by the nature of collective fantasies of happiness, the artist takes the figures from his discovered images and transposes them into a simple, anonymous backdrop. The figur...