It’s a natural human trait to find stories in the world around us. From justifying our experiences with “everything happens for a reason” to pointing out shapes in cloud formations, creating a narrative is both instinctual and imaginative.

Water is a vital nutrient to life on earth: it’s our first building material, making up around 60 percent of the human body. It’s also often no less vital to the act of artistic creation, for example, we could think of the human body as analogous to a body of work, with water as the essential life-force.

Echo and seam in the empathy of forms and colours chiming. The entities – or composites, or individuals – that make up each work transit in a rhythmic scattering, an errant flow.

Zuzanna Salamon’s year has started with the news that she’s been selected to show in the Royal Society for British Artist’s 200th annual show at the Mall Galleries London, for the 3rd year running.

Check out artists on show this month.

Rebecca Payne and Helena Revuelta join the gallery.

Tactile, gentle, these artworks are about belonging.

Abstract art just doesn’t get old: freed from the constraints of representation, see colour, form and composition in all their unbound glory.

Shows, prizes, residencies and more from the past year: read about what the artists have been up to.

In these works of people, you’ll find introspection, psychedelia, monumental figures, vulnerable ones, groups at table and couples in a world of their own.