More figurative art from The Columbia Threadneedle Prize

In a less traditional format, these other pieces also appealed:

The fetishistic and a bit scary Powerdog by Susan Stoppani

The Gardens of Zoological Mutations by Jon Bentley (oil & acrylic) in tribute to the Ladybird books of my childhood, since reinvented,

and the Tinder-inspired drawings The Yes and The No Pile by Rebecca Harper