Grewal’s practice spans painting and drawing. His work centres on figures set within natural landscapes, from verdant forests to coastal scenes, in which bodies appear to merge with their surroundings, unmoored from any specific time or place. Drawing, predominantly in charcoal, is the starting point for his larger paintings: he repeats figures and scenes across different mediums and scales until his narratives come into focus. Grewal works with the conventions of European landscape painting and figuration, and has expressed an affinity with the work of the British painter Keith Vaughan. Light plays a central role in his compositions, and his narratives are left open-ended, allowing viewers to project their own readings onto the scenes.
Jake Grewal (b. 1994, London, United Kingdom) lives and works in London.
Grewal received his BA (Hons) from the University of Brighton in 2016 and his MA from the Royal Drawing School, London, in 2019. Selected solo exhibitions include Jhaveri Contemporary, Mumbai (2026); Studio Voltaire, London (2025); Pallant House Gallery, Chichester (2023); and Thomas Dane Gallery, London (2022). Selected group exhibitions include Whitechapel Gallery, London (2026); Gladstone Gallery, New York (2026); Pace Gallery, Los Angeles (2025); Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas (2025); Kasmin Gallery, New York (2022); and the British Museum, London (2022). His work is held in public collections including the British Museum, London; the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; The Hepworth Wakefield; Pallant House Gallery, Chichester; the Government Art Collection, London; and the Royal Collection, London.