Musician Brian Eno’s new series of paintings, “Blocks,” will debut at Paul Stolper Gallery in London. Created over a two-day continuous performance in August 2025, the project resulted in more than 400 individual works made on birch-ply panels measuring 18-by-13-by-2.5 centimeters. These works will be available online for £500 ($659) each, beginning November 12th, ahead of the exhibition opening on November 14th.
Eno is best known for his atmospheric, experimental music. However, he has also maintained a consistent art practice since studying art at Ipswich Civic College and Winchester School of Art in the 1960s. For these works, he began by cutting large stencils, which he placed across multiple panels before spray painting through them. He incorporated found materials, such as dried pasta, across the panels. Many of these materials were dropped at random to create unexpected negative shapes across the painted works. These works erupt in vivid, layered color, combining bold geometric patterns with undulating, wave-like forms that seem to pulse across the surface.
“’I want to make things in new ways,” Eno told Artsy in an interview. “I want to make things I like….At a time when there are thousands of voices—ads, columnists, corporations, influencers—telling me what I should like, I want to get in touch with what it is that I actually do like. I think that is the value of art: to remind us what really matters to us.”
The series captures Eno’s longstanding interest in generative systems and improvisation. Each painting reflects a balance between deliberate design and accidental discovery. This echoes the process in his musical practice, where randomness is a key element to his compositions.
From the hundreds of panels produced, Eno later assembled a smaller collection of composite works. Each piece combines four panels in a 31-by-31-centimeter square, leaving a 5-by-5-centimeter gap at the center. These are listed at £3,000 ($3,900).
Eno also partnered with Paul Stolper Gallery last year when he released a custom-designed turntable. The working sculpture, priced at £20,000 ($25,000), featured colorful lights to illuminate the round base. It was the second iteration of a work first produced in 2021. Eno’s artwork is featured in several prestigious collections, such as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the British Museum in London, and the Menil Collection in Texas, among others.
