Emerging Landscape Painting Today

 

Messums London is thrilled to announce an upcoming group exhibition at Cork Street Gallery which considers the individual and collective response to environment as represented in landscape painting today. This exhibition delves into the dynamic realm of contemporary painting through the lens of artists who reimagine and experience the natural world through their practices. Landscapes are a potent medium for exploring the intricate symbiotic relationship we have with nature and how, through painting, our perspectives can change to reflect this.

Our curatorial approach aims to draw together perceptions of landscape through the eyes of artists who experience, observe, and appreciate it, demonstrating how understanding through observation can lead to different value systems of perceived beauty. The deeper purpose to not only reflect this beauty but to invite the viewer to reconsider their own interactions with the environment. With a range of art forms that address everything from ecological issues to envisioning harmonious coexistence, the exhibition underscores art’s vital role in fostering awareness and inspiring change in our engagement in the world around us.

The selection process was based on a range of criteria rather than individual merit to look at the conversation in deeper context with critical thinking to explore how landscape and our collective wellbeing mirror each other. Above all considering the entwined nature of our relationship with the environment celebrated through the marks we make. With a spirit of resilience, we echo Pablo Neruda’s sentiment: “You can cut all the flowers, but you can’t keep spring from coming.” This exhibition celebrates the green force that flows through us all while recognizing the consequences that can occur when we make wrong assumptions about nature.

ARTISTS SELECTED – Cork Street gallery: Cara Campbell, Liz Elton, Jonathan Freemantle, Adrian Gardner, Kate Giles, Jelly Green, Tyga Helme, Elle Jackson, Harry Martin, Sophie Mason, Peter Matthews, Francesco Poiana, Claudia Pons Bohman, Mary Spicer

 

   

Biography 

Jelly Green

[ 1992
- Present ]
Jelly Green (b.1992) is a contemporary British-New Zealand painter. Her work is defined by her passion for the natural world. Having spent extended periods immersed in the global web of jungles and rainforests from Brazil to Borneo and Sri Lanka to New Zealand, Green’s large-scale works revel in the magnificent primordial canopies, while unflinchingly bearing witness to the brutal decapitation and destruction of the arboreal world. Her most recent work is focussed on the wildfires that threaten many of the earth’s forests: the paintings capturing the savage, elemental forces unleashed at the critical moment when the fire takes hold.
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Elle Jackson

[
- Present ]
Elle Jackson’s practice is inspired by her therapeutic observation of the natural world.  She is intrigued by the concept of materiality, and what one can do with, and coax out of, the materials and surfaces available to the artist.  Working with an array of different mediums – including oil paint, up-cycled textiles and foraged clay – Jackson’s wall-based forms emerge through the bonding of these materials, resulting in highly textured and tactile objects that connect back to the earth.  By choosing to merge the two worlds of painting and textile, she is connecting stories of the past and present.
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Tyga Helme

[ 1990
- Present ]
Trained at Edinburgh College of Art and The Royal Drawing School in London, where she won the Machin Foundation Prize, Tyga uses nature as a metaphor for feelings of being overwhelmed. She couples minute observation of the teeming forest floor – where the emerald green of a bramble leaf sits in stark juxtaposition to an array of cold blue silver leaves – with the flux and movement of unceasing gro
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Francesco Poiana

[ 1990
- Present ]
Born in Faedis in the North East of Italy in 1990, Francesco Poiana attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome and then the celebrated Albicocco fine art printing workshop in Udine before studying for a Masters degree at Central St Martins College of Art in London. He joined the Royal Drawing School in 2019.
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