Spotlight – Ed Saye
Ed Saye’s paintings hold the strange beauty of a world still running its rituals after the meaning has shifted. Figures walk, gather, hold small suns in their hands, unaware of how altered the air has become. The colour hums at a frequency between reverence and re-coding – radiant, hyperreal, irresistible – the saturation dial turned just past natural, where colour starts to behave as energy instead of pigment. His work has evolved with rare coherence, each canvas reorganising itself from within, as though the paint were recalibrating to each new atmosphere – the pigment edging toward another register entirely.
Ed Saye’s solo exhibition, Once Emerged from the Grey of Night, is currently running at Chapel Arts Studios and marks a decisive point in his career. He’s one of those artists you look at and think: it’s only a matter of when.
