Showing the works of Jang Sooji are collaborated with GALLERY JIB. Born in Daegu, South Korea. She received her BFA from Hong-ik University in Seoul, and her MFA and PhD from Tama Art University in Tokyo. She studied printmaking and most often creates colour etchings with hand-coloring.Kim opens cardboard boxes and lays them flat; the folds and tape marks become the main lines. Opening the box is a way to open stored memories. In the centre, she draws everyday things—a watermelon, a vase, a shirt, a wash basin—quietly and precisely. The white space around the object provides air and distance. The …

Showing the works of Jang Sooji are collaborated with GALLERY JIB. Born in Seoul, lives and works in South Korea.She paints and draws many distinctive figure images with unique personal and social themes.She explains that her portrait represent the act of identifying people, who are anxious and lonely. At the same time it reminds hope to connect with the innocence and purity from childhood, which is believed to be intrinsic to every person.Jang paints in thin layers on jangji so that colour sits within the paper and the image reads gentle and steady. The works place beauty and a small tension …

Copperplate engraving in Paris. In January 1995, I had no idea I would be moving to Paris or working in copperplate engraving.I had been working at a pearl company in Kobe for almost two years, and although I was quietly waiting for a change, I had no idea what form it would take. What I could have never imagined, however, was that this change would manifest in the form of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake.I endured the shock of the disaster and the subsequent months of chaos without really understanding what was going on, and before I knew it, I was …

My works are a celebration of my love of colour, texture and form. I have tackled them with gusto, creating the first few images unsatisfactorily and then almost destroying them to allow me to free up and push them past the point of being something safe to something much more exciting. They are textured, overworked and rubbed and scratched back. Sometimes nothing of the starting image remains visible, I never know what the final image is going to look like until it appears. Future memories.– Emma Davis Emma studied Fine Art at both John Moores University and Wolverhampton University and …

“In my drawings and paintings, I want to celebrate earthly beauty and humble experience. Using colours that resonate with emotion, and conversing with the rich visual poetry of flowers, I make simple lines and shapes to try to depict just the essence of the subjects. I take notes from the changing seasons, flowers and the simplicity of everyday objects.
I paint and draw from my imagination, the pictures in my mind’s eye, or my memory.  I’m interested in the feeling a colour or a flower gave me, or the recollection of an image.
Femininity and the female body… symbolised by pots and vessels, curved shapes to depict a harmony of strength and softness.

The ephemeral and the eternal.”
Pascale Cumberbatch, November 2024

Jatinder Singh DurhailayOxfordshire based Painter & Musician. Jatinder Singh Durhailay was born in 1988 in London, United-Kingdom. He received a Bachelor of the Arts from University Arts London in 2011 and has been working as a painter ever since. His artistic practice spans painting and drawing, with a special interest in the usage of naturally derived pigments, as well as Indian classical music.Blending myths and contemporary culture, Durhailay’s portrayal of the Sikh community and culture are humorous, heroic and poignant. He paints intricate and observant portraits and sceneries in the style of Indian Mughal miniature painting — spanning painterly subjects …

Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck (b.1990, France) is a painter, transdisciplinary artist and cultural practitioner based in rural Oxfordshire. Her practice, composed of painting, drawing, installation, sculpture, film, photography, writing, participatory projects, horticulture, publishing and workshops, renders caring, positive and ecological messages in soft and delicate methods. Interaction with the environment and others is central to much of the artist’s work. Recent solo exhibitions include Dreaming about Tomorrow at Nidi Gallery. Recent group exhibitions include Edge Effects at Whitechapel Gallery, One Foot in The Sky at Contemporary Sculpture Fulmer and New Nature at Paterson Zevi. Johanna founded the collaborative cultural deep-ecology-informed initiatives Poetic Pastel Press and The Gardening Drawing Club. She …

Emma’s delicate and sensitive drawings in charcoal, chalk and pencil convey the beauty of nature in an intimate way, reflecting her practice of working outdoors in all seasons, fully immersed in the landscape. Her field sketches create vivid personal portraits of individual trees, brimming with life.   Emma’s work centres around close observation and is informed by her background as a biologist. It is characterised by taking note – focusing on what is important or significant in the moment – and by an openness to the possibilities of a landscape. Rarely leaving home without a sketchbook, she is able to respond to the …

Jynsym Ong is a studio potter making high fired mostly functional ware. She has studied ceramics at Clay College in Stoke On Trent and was selected as a Daiwa Scholar enabling her to undertake an apprenticeship at Mitoh Kama in Karatsu, Japan. She is interested in patterns that are found in nature that have subtlety and variation. To achieve this she uses natural materials like ash, found clay and rocks. The pots are then fired for up to 70 hours in an Anagama (wood-fired cave kiln) which creates additional volatility in the kiln atmosphere creating unexpected surfaces from the fly ash and flame paths. With her work she is looking to enrich people’s lives in a little way every day, hoping to bring joy to the quotidian and an exaltation of the domestic.