Spotlight on 8 New Blood Artists selected for the RA Summer Exhibition
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Spotlight on 8 New Blood Artists selected for the RA Summer Exhibition 2023 - the world's largest open submission exhibition, this year is co-coordinated by David Remfry RA on the theme of 'Only Connect', from E.M. Forster's Howard's End: “Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer.
Rosemary Burn
Seeking to make the unusual the usual in soft, dreamlike brushstrokes, Rosemary Burn captures the everyday in a way that renders the seemingly mundane visible, and important. Rosemary trained at Chelsea School of Art and is also a classical pianist.
Love All by Rosemary Burn
Primroses by Rosemary Burn
Olga Mun
Using bold, colourful abstraction on canvases teeming with suggestive shapes and evocative figures, Olga Mun's work inhabits the gap between historical record and 'lived' history, finding expression in spontaneous mark making, careful layering and intuitive composition.
Defendant by Olga Mun
Impossible Painting by Olga Mun
With a body of work that encompasses both carefully detailed exotic plantscapes and highly saturated abstract shapes that seem to be suspended on the white expanse of canvas, the complexity and meticulous detail of former find balance in the simplicity and meditative spaciousness of latter. Orlanda Broom's work is voluptuous and at times even claustrophobic, with landscapes that are at once lush paradises and wild, alien Otherworld.
King Tide by Orlanda Broom
Cosmic Canyon by Orlanda Broom
Margaret Ashman's prints are alive. Capturing the nuanced combination of strength and vulnerability of the dancers she depicts, movement is everywhere - offset by the soft simplicity of their backgrounds, her subjects a caught, suspended in powerful poise in these sophisticated photo etchings
Keep Dancing by Margaret Ashman
Summer Breeze by Margaret Ashman
