Come to Kadrioru Galerii (in Kadrioru Plaza) Vesivärava 50, Tallinn (entrance on Gonsiori Street) on Tuesday 16th September to experience 'Nature: 10 Artists From London' The artists whose work will be exhibited in Estonia have previously participated in or curated shows in institutions including The Saatchi Gallery, The Royal Academy, Deptford X, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Fitzrovia Chapel, and The Chelsea Arts Club, taught at the best schools, and organised events at both Tate Britain and Tate Modern. This show is a snap shot of what’s currently happening in the London art scene. Visitors to the Nature show will hopefully delight in seeing both the similarities and contrasts in the work of these artists all united by their love of nature.
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Harry Adams makes paintings of the natural world vs the constructs and machinations of man in all their awe, terror and incalculable beauty.
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Gordon Beswick is an artist and a freelance film maker. His paintings
are informed by the lines, colour and geometric shapes visible in our
environment. For this show he will be exhibiting
a series of new paintings that began as painterly abstract works which he
developed intuitively into imaginary landscapes.
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Edie Flowers works in sculpture and drawings to examine the fragility and contradictions of human nature. Drawing and redrawing from life, memory, books, music and the imagination, Edie creates theatrical moments.
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Georgia Hayes says "I am committed to the abstract and formal qualities of painting whilst wanting to find likeness and meaning by focusing on a subject that has moved me. I am interested in our position in nature and how we appear to live outside of it”.
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Huddie Hamper says he finds painting a pleasure. “My work is intuitive by nature, expressing aspects of my current life and psychological state. I have an urge to create and describing forms in paint feels natural to me. I aim to communicate the beauty – and sometimes darkness – that is in the world around us.”
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Cedar Lewisohn makes drawings and prints as well as curates and writes. For this exhibition he has made a series of images based on nature and abstraction.
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Raksha
Patel’s paintings explore the
imagined landscape where notions of identity merge the natural environment
creating spaces that are fantastical, illusionary
and occasionally dystopian. Raksha also works as a lecturer and writer.
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Harry Pye makes paintings about people and things he loves to cheer himself up and create a new world to escape into. Often his work is made in collaboration with friends. For the last year he has been making paintings of cows - creatures that some people see as being comic, some see as food, and other people see as sacred.
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Above: 'Their World Is What Angels With Black Halos Think' (2025) by Suzanne Spiro 66cm x 46cm mixed media on canvas.
Suzanne Spiro uses mixed media including embroidery to express her ideas and feelings about the nature of our relationship with the world around us.
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The artworks in The Nature Show range in style from the intensely felt, drawn from the depth of the psyche to the joyful and pure depictions of the wonders of life. The 10 artists’ voices blend together like music conveying a variety of experiences and emotions, each representing a personal view of the world and of life.
The Nature Show takes the viewer on a journey from deserted industrial sites where nature has reclaimed its powerful wildness, to the silent, mystic universe of a single flower. It explores the rich world of animals and insects, and the abstract expressions of colour where nature is a state of mind.
Does art make you happy? The artists all have strong roots in art history and a passion for the great masters that came before them, as they have a love and admiration for their contemporary fellow artists. Most of the artists in the show will say yes – making art and viewing art makes you happy. Art is a way to feel alive, to connect with oneself and remember who you are. Art can be frustrating and hard to express, but satisfying when overcome. Art can be a cure for craziness.
Art is a drive. It’s a natural force that wants to be expressed. Art and nature have this essence in common. The beauty of nature is overwhelming, it is a connection to a parallel life of drifting clouds, of ocean waves, rolling hillsides, of birds flying, animals moving, plants growing - a parallel life of harmony and mystery that is always present and alive.
Nature holds a silent intelligence – entelechy. As the artist follows his or her instinct, the work unfolds to its full expression. As the seed grows and becomes a flower it unfolds to its full potential. The design is in the seed, the artwork is in the artist – the process is a force of nature.
The Nature Show explores themes of nature, joy, grief and memory. Nature = life. “Life = God!” (Text by Tine Frellesen)
