Reveries Exhibition
25 Feb - 1 Mar 2020
Tue - Sat: 1 - 7pm | Sun: 1 - 5pm
Private View:
Thu 27 Fev 2020 | 6 - 9pm (Admission free, no RSVP needed)
Espacio Gallery
159 Bethnal Green Road, London, E2 7DG

The sheer act of artistic creation is a daydream. The mind wanders, the body relaxes and time becomes distorted.
‘Reveries' presents a selection of artworks that offer a glimpse into the dreams of their creators. And invites spectators to embark on a poignant journey transcending perception, a voyage into lucid fantasy.
Artists
As a fine art photographer I am passionate about working with nature and exploring ways to capture its essence, energy and spirit. In my work I am searching for the vibration of life itself and its luminosity through unique abstract constellations infused with inspiration and mystery.
Barbara LT is a resident artist at Kew Art Studio and paints circus artists.
Focused on painting movement, the character, “the feel” of performers she finds beauty in all circus disciplines with cyr wheel being closest to her heart.
She runs away with the circus as often as she can.
I am an illustrator using 2D deft-line imagery and ceramics to address gender, stereotypes, mental health, and politics.
She spits love at me.
A regurgitation of her
childhood on to mine.
Or is it his? It’s always His.
I swell.
She shrinks back
Too big to fly.
The phrase ‘Impossible Interiors/ Exteriors’, describes my most recent work.
The works originate as small-scale hand worked collage, appropriated from a wide variety of printed sources.
These collages are then photographed at high definition & digitally printed, directly onto canvas.
They are then reworked using resin, & paint.
Cathal associates his practice with exploration as much as expression.
This is often undertaken through rough mark making and the reduction of painterly layers.
His work aims to uncover the line between abstract expressionism and observational study.
Previous themes have included memory, hypnogogia and the moon.
Here is a collection of original watercolour paintings that I have been creating since leaving my job as a teacher. This time has allowed me to explore my creativity and renew my ambition in life.
Hannah Robin Baker is a British artist working with paint to investigate and recreate myths, fairy tales, old Hollywood films and science fiction.
She is fascinated by the contradictions and crossovers between love and hate, human and animal, fear and laughter.
Her paintings are abstracted figurative explorations of dark desire.
Jane Hepburn worked as a video artist and photographer before becoming a painter.
Jane makes fine art prints and then hand paints them to match the original, creating a unique piece of art.
Presently she is experimenting printing on silk and other fabrics.
Aiming For Peace - That the Power of Vision, if focused, like an archer, with the passion of youth and the compassion of the feminine, actually could manifest the cherished dream of World Peace.
Whilst fully aware of todays political environment - the sculptor believes this to be so.
My mission is to inspire people to explore and rekindle their creativity. I am a multimedia artist and I create vibrant, joyful and inventive pictures always trying to blur the line between reality and imagination. The images might look like digital paintings but they are 100% photographs created using long exposure and light painting techniques.
Kushag’s multimedia artworks are an experimentation of form and genre.
Each piece is manipulated to exude a sense of spontaneity in a fast-paced modern world, whilst remaining grounded to the thought that all things eventually would return back to the earth or turn to dust, like sands of time.
Kyun is a London-based self-taught photographer shooting street and documentary photography. His street photography focuses on colour and light, particularly high contrast light and shadows. One of his prints was exhibited at The Other Art Fair, London 2018, as part of Feature Shoot's Print Swap initiative.
I believe that my mixed heritage has been a rich source for material to work with, though at times it has also created numerous questions within me about my identity, sense of belonging and place in the world. I strongly feel that I am not alone in this sensation, and that many young people today can relate to this emotion. The sense of not quite belonging and being an observer of life. A tiny tremor of conflict within oneself, that is also a way to see the divisions and connecting threads that link each one of us to a complex wider world.
My Art is predominately made from recycled materials. Some themed around nature, science, and quantum physics. "Cicada Guitar" is a forest bird song or interactive musical playing guitar. This work aims to bring about awareness towards nature's genius at camouflage in order to survive and man's interaction with it. My creativity is formulated by my subconscious mind, resulting in my genre, "manifestationism".
Inspired by nature and guided by geometry I create paintings that tell stories about Quamtum Entanglement, Magnetism, Rebirth, The Cosmos and The Mind.
Art ends the limits to imagination.
I often use chance processes in my work and play with scale. The random nature of collage presents me with any number of unexpected narratives, yet always reflects recurring themes and obsessions, fears and desires.
I have been working with glass for seven years, studying as an adult student, part time at Merton college, as well as working in a small studio at the back of my garden.
I draw designs inspired by the natural world and my travels.
In this work I tried to express the feeling of awakening the city, by using the contrast of light and dark.
In my work I am concentrating on taking the meaning of life into pieces to reassemble it afterwards through my own gaze. I am telling my stories in a highly visual and staged way using stylistics of poetry as visual translation ~ AUDIOVISUAL POETRY.
Women’s sensibility and empowerment are key aspects of my work.
My paintings represent how I see myself through other people, choosing a stark black background to set a scene of drama & intrigue. My women are cubist vamp-like goddesses or divas, reminiscent of faded Hollywood glamour. There is a ‘funereal-like’ sense to the work, complete with monochromatic bouquets of flowers.
I am interested in patterns. Thoughts occur as patterns; our lives are made up of events that occur as repetitions; history is repeated in patterned compositions. I am fascinated by the way nature forms patterns, even those that are grotesque. When people and animals are born deformed, the deformity is symmetrical, harmonious. There are patterns in deformities, which imbue them with grace and beauty. I find the beauty in the grotesque.
Rebecca Asghar is an award winning Portraiture artist, specialising in oil paintings in the figurative tradition. Her work is characterised by bold expressive strokes and contrasts of light and shade, inspired by Lucian Freud and Vilheim Hammershoi. She draws from her personal experiences to reflect on themes of cultural discord and personal identity. Rebecca's work has featured at the Ruth Borchard self portrait exhibition in 2019 and has most recently been seen on Sky Arts's Portrait Artist of the Year 2020.
Exploring the changing nature of class, Sally works with hand tufted and knitted textiles to create artworks that question our relationship to the medium and how we perceive our place in the world.
She is interested in how economic developments have shifted the notion of class and the culture of ‘me’ rather than a collective aspiration of ‘we’.
The collection is a selection of colour pencil drawings and an oil painting.
The main interest is to explore social constructions through the use of objects and the human form.
There is an intention to create both visual and conceptual impact with other worldly imagery rendered in a believable way.
Siméon Artamonov is an artist and designer, working in London.
His current work is distinguished by high key colour, fluidity, and Bauhaus and Cubist influences (Georges Braque a notable inspiration).
His subjects are often taken from everyday life exploring the fluidity of shapes and warm colours.
I am currently studying the MA Fine Art Painting course at University of the Arts London.
My current practice explores how the process of painting is used to define the material roots of a place.
I am fascinated by how the history of Pompeii has been preserved overtime through the material memories of the volcanic eruption.
Teri is a Londoner who taught herself photography mostly on the streets of her hometown. Her work exists to document the world she sees in an attempt to connect with it and those who inhabit it.
“Here we have sunrise in one city, sunset in another - both cities I have a special affinity with. The choice is one or the other - the dream is both.”
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