The botanical and landscapes provide the opportunity for abstraction in the work of these three emerging artists.
| Introducing new artist Imi Williams, 2021 graduate of Camberwell College of Arts: In a choreography of contrasts, colours will pull against the magnetic black or blue swathes into new intensity. Lush deeper tones alongside vivid bright ones. These works by Imogen Williams are aerial and gymnastic, plush and undulating. They bring to mind the soft fluidity of Georgia O’Keeffe’s organic abstractions. There’s a sense of being compelled, mesmerised: the fascination that brings you in closer to look at a work of nature or art. | |||
| In Olivia Mansfield’s paintings (see our profile on this investable artist) the feeling of looking simultaneously at the recesses of the future and the distant past gives the work its mythic undertow. The blissful use of paint meets the sensuality of a landscape. Fangying Lu’s paintings are a tactile arena of subtle spatial impressions. “I favour the fluid, stained pigments” she writes. Zones of drift and autonomy, an amorphous place without an agenda – otherwise than to unfurl, be. These oil paintings (sometimes on linen) draw on botanical and surrealist imagery, giving the watery milieu of a garden fountain or meadow stream – or a memory that encases the viewer. Like the brilliant Leonora Carrington, for whom spaces for magical transformation were sacred, Fangying’s works are alchemical. |
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