NATURE

a collective exhibition of 6 international artists

15 June – 1 August 2023

ArtMoorHouse, Moor House building

120 London Wall EC2Y5ET London, UK

presented by ArtMoorHouse in collaboration with arTbridge

ArtMoorHouse, London 2023 theme: NATURE

When choosing this year’s theme we wanted to select a topic that reflected a cultural shift that is happening now or that it is about to happen. Our aim is to create a series of exhibitions that explore the concept of Nature through the very unique point of view of each of the artists or the projects selected.

The concept that de fi nes Nature has gone through an innumerable quantity of meaning both historically and geographically. To this day, Nature remains a very difficult world to define and it is ultimately being considered a mental construction resting more on Experiences and Reflection rather than on a concrete notion.

Malgosia Stepnik, Medusa, Acrylic on fine linen, 185 x 185 cm

It is for this reason that Nature offers vast range of possibilities embracing subjects as diverse as the wilderness of the natural world and our emotional connection with the environment to a more metaphysical abstraction of its organic interpretation edging to the ambiguous relation between what is considered natural as opposed to artificial. Moreover this year theme provides the opportunity to explore the interconnection of all living things and to investigate the more complex relationship among man and Nature. It is in that vary balance in fact we see the deepest change in the interpretation of its meaning which can span from a more mythological significance to the very materialistic theory that views Nature as an endless resource available for human consumption.

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Image: Katherine Le Hardy, Catch the wind , Oil on canvas, 140 x 110 cm

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“I see nature as an infinite tapestry of interconnected patterns and forms in dynamic relationship. It is in continual flux, with ever novel forms emerging into and fading out of existence. I am awestruck by its incomprehensible vastness and complexity, but I also find serenity in the recognition that I am a part of it.”

Alexandre Haywood

Jungle’s Edge

Oil on linen

100 x 150 cm

Alexandre Haywood

Rubber Plant

Oil on linen

60 x 60 cm

Fig

Oil on linen

60 x 60 cm

Alexandre Haywood

Beneath The Trees

Oil on canvas

180 x 180 cm

Alexandre Haywood

Woods’s Edge Oil on canvas

60

x 70 cm

SEMIOFLOWER (2019-23)

Flowers are mankind's guide to a heavenly state of mind; they are but symbols of an idea. A flower does not need an explanation to bloom. It may be subject to many interpretations, but there is one in the mind of all like an instinctive ecstasy: an affinity for the eternal, because eternity has a strange way of overflowing. In nature, everything is always harmonious: colours, shape, proportions, structure, everything fits perfectly. Nature speaks for itself. It doesn’t analyse or evaluate, it silently gives of itself with the joy of having given itself. I realised that removing the self from the story is a form of repressing the truth. Therefore, I exclude painting in imitation: try to imitate what you see with your eyes and that is what becomes false in painting. I never paint nature as I see it, I just let myself happen. One’s own reality is actually inside one’s mind: a flower without roots, the symbol of the world, the movement of space, nature’s auto- ecstasy; style, structure and meaning; the becoming as grace, the x-ray of a state of mind where things no longer weigh.

SEMIOFLOWER (2019-23)

Flowers or emotional diagrams? An intimation of meaningmaking, because I am not interested in painting the anatomy of flowers, what I want is to be able to summarise the key features of a semiotics of being, of becoming atemporal and ahistorical: I call it to reach an acute state of eternity.

Anca Stefanescu

Semioflower I

Oil paint on arches archive paper mounted on MDF

132 x 122 cm

Anca Stefanescu

Semioflower VII

Oil paint on arches archive paper mounted on MDF 110 x 110 cm

Semioflower XV

Oil paint on arches archive paper mounted on MDF 132 x 122 cm

Semioflower XVI

Oil on paint on arches archive paper mounted on MDF 132 x 122 cm

Semioflower XVII

Oil on arches archive paper mounted on MDF 150 x 260 cm

Barry Andrews

Colour, line and composition are all celebrated in their original form in nature, it is a genuine source for all our inspiration how we interpret the information determines the outcome.

Barry Andrews

Calypso rhythm

Oil on Canvas

100 x 70 cm

Glowing Gorge

Oil on Canvas

120 x 90 cm

Barry Andrews

Barry Andrews

A perfect day Oil on Canvas

60 x 60 x 5 cm

Barry Andrews

And quiet flows the Thames

Oil on Canvas

60 x 60 x 5 cm

Barry Andrews

Celebration time

Oil on Canvas

150 x 88 cm

Katherine Le Hardy

“The culmination of almost three years of thinking and experimentation, Katharine Le Hardy’s latest body of work examines the ways in which landscapes can communicate a narrative and induce feelings of nostalgia and escapism in the viewer. Here, dramatic scenery is depicted with a tenderness and tranquility that transports us to a calm and thoughtful space; one in which memories and dreams combine, nestled in the forest’s canopy and shimmering beneath the water’s surface. - Candida

Stevens

Katherine Le Hardy

Katherine Le Hardy

Soft rain

Oil on canvas

140 x 110 cm

Nature in my work.

Malgosia Stepnik

The progressive schism between the natural world and humans, the disconnection from each other and the natural world and its profoundly detrimental effect on the physical and mental health of people, has become an urgent subject in recent years in the global conversation.

This very subject of disconnection has always been part of the exploration in my practice. However instead of emphasising the disconnection the aim in my work to convey that we are all connected: visibly and invisibly, directly and indirectly. Although my work in recent years has been predominantly non-figurative - when I use figurative elements they are almost inevitably derivatives from nature - be it plant or an animal or a human for that matter. I then using my “circular” technique, merge the background and the foreground into one. Because we are all one.

Perhaps my awareness and the importance of connection to nature is enhanced by the fact that I spent my childhood in the midst of nature’s magnificence in a hamlet surrounded by woodlands, hills, river and forests… . Spending my time playing surrounded by Earth’s Delights and, learning its ways.

The need to re-connect to nature informed the decision I made in 2013 to relocated from London to The Cotswolds. The English Cotswolds is one ‘Area of Outstanding Beauty’ hence my choice to live here yet still not to far from London and its culture. Inspired by my visits to Japan, I had my art studio built looking onto the garden where I grow over 200 species of plants, have some newts, frogs and various birds paying visits. For here I’ve created an environment where the boundaries of the outside and inside worlds merge into one.

Malgosia Stepnik

Medusa

Acrylic on fine linen

185 x 185 cm

Malgosia Stepnik

Light Within Acrylic on linen

120 x 90 cm

Malgosia Stepnik

The world we live in Oil and acrylic on wood

160 cm diameter

Benjamin Deakin

My work is always, in one way or another engaged with the way in which landscape painting has defined the idea of Nature within western culture. In recent works I have brought in motifs of Victorian and Art Nouveau textile patterns within interiors that look out on Himalayan mountains-capes to broaden and even upend the usual Romantic associations this imagery normally provokes.

Benjamin Deakin

Sustainer

Oil on canvas

120 x 150 cm

Benjamin Deakin

Sustainer

Oil on canvas

120 x 150 cm

Benjamin Deakin

Exchanger

Oil on panel

74 x 64 cm

Benjamin Deakin

Relater

Oil on canvas

90 x 105 cm

Acknowledgements:

Special thanks to all Moor House’s building management team who, for the past ten years of collaboration, have been directly involved in the development of ArtMoorHouse thanks to their precious help and great support for our Art Program.

Elisa Martinelli, director at ArtMoorHouse

ArtMoorHouse in collaboration with ArTbridge presents:

NATURE

15 June – 1 August 2023

ArtMoorHouse - Moor House Building 120 London Wall, EC2Y 5ET, London UK

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