Dan Herlihy (b.1990, Bristol, England) lives and works in London. His paintings explore the intersection of atmosphere and abstract form, using restrained, earthy palettes and elongated silhouettes to hold moments of tension between the grounded and the abstract.

Herlihy trained in the arts, graduating with a first-class degree, before establishing a career as an Art Director on Oscar-winning film productions, a background in visual storytelling that continues to shape his studio practice today. He builds and disrupts the surface with brush, palette knife and wedge, creating a layered, textural finish, drawn to earthy palettes for their primal quality. His studio work centres on opposing forces, exploring moments where elements meet and resist, where the slightest variations in tone or balance carry significant weight. Alongside these, a series of silhouette studies, figures and animals rendered in the same pared-back palette, extends this language of tension into form.