Reflections' features the work of emerging artists Joana Galego, Paul Newman, Oliver Dorrell and Ben Westley Clarke.
This is a collection of painterly reveries as intimate portraits of desire and despair, fantastical journeys with pastoral and mystical interludes as well as Neo-expressionistic scenes of street life.
The artists' sources are many - for Joana Galego they are mainly autobiographical and an entry into the life of emotions. Ben Westley Clarke is inspired by Arthur Rimbaud's poetry, Goya' imagery, German Expressionism and cinema. Paul Newman's apocalyptic paintings are influenced by Gainsborough, Hogarth, identifying with the hope and hopelessness of Don Quixote. Oliver Dorrell is a world traveller, a painter and anthropologist fascinated by his encounter with Hindu mythology and its timeless stories.
Uncannily, all these themes reflect each other: cultures, myths and tales cross over in the human psyche connecting us.
In the hands of these four artists, the play of pigment, chiaroscuro, collage, graphic sensibility and figuration, and a sense of the unfathomable allows an elemental yet complex beauty to emerge. Within this context, it is the artist's journey that creates new visions for a contemporary world.