Lashes of flowers are swapped with brightly coloured pills in another work – a nod to addiction, and how our hunger for social media stops us seeing the beauty of nature – while text pieces take aim at the passivity of armchair activism.

It’s Not Me, It’s You (on view until 10 February) is Teague’s sixth solo show with Kristin Hjellegjerde, who has championed the artist since the inception of her gallery in London nearly 12 years ago. The gallerist’s keen eye for spotting talent has since seen her open a second space in London, as well as galleries in Berlin and West Palm Beach in Florida.

Hjellegjerde says: “Celina’s work pulsates with energy and original thoughts. Her practice has a strong focus on environmental and political current affairs, and while her work is often direct in its messaging, her unique perspective always results in surprising and complex compositions. Her show in Berlin is an example of this, featuring an exciting new body of work that demonstrates her extraordinary ability to combine humour with social critique, bold imagery with nuanced ideas and to show us new ways of looking at the world.”

Teague draws inspiration from a wide array of sources: current affairs, the natural world and her travels, including extensive periods spent in Mexico and Berlin.

She says: “With the paintings in my current show, I tried to break away from the news-driven works of the past and disappear wholeheartedly into the weird and wonderful world of nature. In part, I failed. Though some of them feel quite a departure from previous paintings, the realities of the unstable and cruel human world creep into these pieces.”

In “For Better or For Worse”, for example, opium poppies, Fentanyl lollipops and pills sprout from a chair’s fabric, while a disembodied mouth licks its lips – hungry for more substances and information. Our appetite for more is all pervasive, it seems.

Teague sees her longstanding partnership with Kristin Hjellegjerde as one of her greatest career achievements – “a second marriage” of sorts, held down during the mania of juggling work with raising young children and multiple animals.

“Do I get credit for pinning down two long-term relationships?” she asks. The Wick thinks so, particularly when the offspring from her Hjellegjerde relationship is so sweet.

After her Berlin show, you can also catch her work at Expo Chicago in April and a group show in Schloss Goerne, Hjellegjerde’s seasonal space in Germany this summer.