Raoul Orzabal is a British artist based in London. Using photoshop, Orzabal creates complex and intricately detailed compositions which combine architectural elements, buildings, skyscrapers and classical ruins which are fractured and layered.  Influenced by early 20th century modernist paintings and abstraction, Orzabal adopts this artistic language, exploring the manipulation and distortion of line, colour and space.  He transcends the landscape or cityscape genre by pushing the picture plane into multi-dimensional scenes, that appear almost 3D and disrupt the viewer’s sense of place and space.  The monumental canvases take many months to create, painstakingly painted in small sections, creating densely populated scenes that are epic in scale.  There is a dystopian theme running through these compositions, where the buildings appear to splinter and the classical ruins and buildings are in a state of decay and debris, and appear to falter and fade into the background.  There is a constant tension between the man-made and the natural world, the smog and clouds that fill the sky behind these apocalyptic scenes.  Orzabal creates an alternate and parallel reality, that demonstrates a clear foreboding and commentary on our environmental impact and human creation and destruction.

In 2019 he was awarded the Art Gemini Prize and in the past year has won places in group exhibitions such as the Green and Stone Summer Exhibition, Hampstead Arts society and Rise at Henley annual exhibition. In December 2024, he had a solo exhibition at the gallery at Hampstead School of Art. Orzabal also took part as a pod artist in Sky Arts Landscape Painter of the Year 2025. He has also won other awards such as Rise at Henley main prize, Homiens art prize and The De Laszlo Foundation Surrealist Award from Green and Stone.

Personal Profile:

Group Exhibitions 

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Semester 1, Harrow Campus, London                                                                                               2013

Untitled, LightHouse Café, London                                                                                                     2014

Semester 2   Harrow Campus, London                                                                                              2014

Apartment Exhibition 1, London                                                                                                        2014

Preston Road Show, London                                                                                                                2014

Semester 3, Harrow Campus, London                                                                                               2014

Apartment Exhibition 2,  London                                                                                                        2015

Babble, The Windermere, London                                                                                                     2015

Semester 4, Harrow Campus, London                                                                                              2015

Untitled, London Gallery West, Harrow Campus, London                                                          2015

Semester 5 , Harrow Campus, London                                                                                             2016

Degree Show, P3, Marylebone Campus, London                                                                           2016

Hampstead School of Art end of year Show, Hampstead School of Art, London                 2017

Chelsea Arts Society, Chelsea Old Town Hall, London                                                                2017                                                                                              

Picasso and Contemporary Art, 508  Gallery, London                                                                2018

Hampstead School of Art end of year Show, Hampstead School of Art, London                2018

Out of the Ordinary, The Function Suit, London                                                                           2019

Art Gemini Finalist Exhibition, Gallery Nawei, Singapore                                                         2019  

Escape Bar Group Show,  Escape Bar, London                                                                              2022

Hampstead Arts Society,  Dalmeny Court, London                                                           2024

Green and Stone Summer Exhibition, Gallery at Green and Stone, London                         2024

Rise at Henley Festival, Audi Gallery, Henley                                                                                2025

Homiens Winter Online Exhibition (online)                                                                                  2025

Green and Stone Summer Exhibition, Gallery at Green and Stone, London                         2025

Other Art Fair, Truman Brewery, London                                                                                        2026

Chelsea Arts Society, Chelsea Old Town Hall, London                                                                 2026 

Yardley Arts Summer Exhibition, Yardley Town Hall, Yardley                                                  2026

Hampstead Arts Society,  Dalmeny Court, London                                                                     2026

New Emergence Art Prize, Online Exhibition 2026

Solo Exhibitions 

Geometrics, Rosetti Studios, London                                                                                               2017

Baroque Cubism , Hampstead School of Art, London                                                                 2018

Untitled, Crate Brewery, London                                                                                                      2019 

When is Enough, Hampstead School of art, London                                                                    2024

Awards

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Art Gemini Prize –Art Gemini                                                                                                           2019

Rise at Henley Main Prize – Henley Festival                                                                                 2025

Homiens Art Prize -Homiens                                                                                                           2025

The De Laszlo Foundation Surrealist Award – The Gallery at Green and Stone                   2025

Handelsbanker Award - Chelsea Arts Society                                                                         2026

Yardely Arts Painting Award - Yardley Arts                                                                            2026

Work Experience  _____________________________________________________________________________________________

Egg Theatre, Bath 2007-2011

Hampstead school of Art, London 2018

Hampstead school of Art, London 2016/17

TV

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Sky Arts: Landscape Painter of the Year 2025