Ines Calder paints the hour the tide turns.
Slow abstract paintings in oil and cold wax, made on the north Kent coast.
Now showing Low WaterHalden Gallery, London · until 1 Nov
Selected works
Choose a painting, then see it hung in a room at true scale.
Slack Water
2025
Oil and cold wax on linen
120 × 180 cm
Available£19,000
2025 — 2026Each begins with one horizon, laid down at the hour the water stops moving.
On slowness
“I want a painting to take as long to look at as the weather takes to change.”
Each morning I walk the shore to Minnis Bay and note three colours — not of the sea or sky, but of the air between them. The paintings try to keep those notes honest.
Exhibitions
Born Porto, 1984. Lives and works in Margate.
- Represented by
- Halden Gallery, London
Kunstraum Weiss, Basel - Collections
- The Arden Collection, Edinburgh
Kunstmuseum Rhein, Basel - Awards
- Coastline Painting Prize, 2025
- 2026Low Water
Halden Gallery, London - 2026The Weather Room
Palazzo Corvi, Venice - 2025Tidal Hours
Harbour Arts Centre, Margate - 2024Salt Ledger
Kunstraum Weiss, Basel - 2024Painting After Rain
Maison Ardoise, Paris - 2021Grounds
Fold Projects, Glasgow
Acquire a work
For available paintings, commissions and studio visits. We reply within two days.
The Net Loft, 14 Marine TerraceMargate CT9 1XJ
studio@inescalder.art