Cain Casson narrates the hidden absurdity of isolated rural landscapes by exploiting the confines of painting. Navigating raw, argumentative surfaces with salvaged brushes, emerging images pulse between feelings of banality and paranoia, forcibly entrapped within assemblages of found wood, broken furniture and rural detritus.

Casson’s work revisits the non-metropolitan idyll with wide, weary eyes; dredging its picture-postcard façade for a truthful vision of contemporary countryside life. The resultant works exist in a state of struggle, the composure of their visual influence at odds with a heavy-handed approach.

Cain Casson (b. 2001, Blackburn, UK) is a painter based in the North-West, England. They received a BA in Fine Art from Manchester School of Art in 2025 and currently hold a studio at Paradise Works, Salford. Since graduating, Casson has been awarded the Freelands Painting Prize 2025, Castelo Branco Residency Award and Haworth Trust Scholarship.