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Viewing Ena Swansea: green light

To celebrate the end of lockdown, Ben Brown Fine Arts has turned over its London space to Ena Swansea, an American artist best known for fusing digital, filmic and traditional painting techniques to explore urban landscapes.

Teetering on the edge of abstraction, these large-scale canvases show familiar but often overlooked scenes of New York. You’ll come face to face with Central Park in winter, deserted tree-lined roads and snowy streets at night.

By balancing light and darkness as well as brilliant and muted colours, Swansea lures us into her complex painterly visions of quietness. They are stopping and intriguing and utterly compelling — leave frazzled, whirling minds at the door.

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Dates
13 May 2021 — 30 July 2021
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Photography Hold Still by The Duchess of Cambridge

The words ‘photobook’ and ‘pandemic’ might not sound particularly congruous – but this new publication, Hold Still, provides a snapshot of 2020 Britain that is poignant, powerful and life-affirming. The project was started by the Duchess of Cambridge a year ago with the intention of capturing a ‘portrait of the nation’ during Covid-19. The 100 images, hand-selected from more than 31,000 entries by the Duchess herself, were first put on display in a digital exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery and have been assembled into this brand-new book on sale from today. Whether your coffee table’s ready for it just yet, it’s a historic document in the making.


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Viewing Orlanda Broom: Rewild at Grove Square Galleries

Mysterious, exotic and ablaze with brilliant colour, the mesmerising floralscapes of British artist Orlanda Broom draw the eye every which way you look. Her highly-saturated imagined visions combine fictional plantlife with abstract organic forms and seem to exist outside of a specific time or place.

In lockdown Broom focused on the more jubilant aspects of her practice, creating a new series of paintings celebrating the natural world.

‘The connection to nature and aspects of escapism have always been a theme but it’s particularly pertinent now as people’s appreciation of being outdoors has grown,’ she says. ‘I’d like my love of nature to come through and engage people to also think about what the future holds… can our planet rewild?’

Currently on display at Grove Square Galleries in Fitzrovia, these buoyant new works offer a colourful escape from our current — dare we say, still-a-little-frazzled — state of being. Hop to it!

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Dates
29 April 2021 — 11 June 2021
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