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Viewing Sojourner Truth Parsons’s new works recreate the delight of nurturing a garden

Blue Goes Away is Sojourner Truth Parsons’s first solo exhibition with Pilar Corrias, and a great chance to see the Canadian-born artist’s works in the flesh in London. The show features all new paintings themed around intimacy – extracts of moments in life that might otherwise go unnoticed, clutched at and made immemorial on canvas.

These new paintings are the result of Parsons spending time nurturing her garden in the southern Catskills Mountains and observing the quietly changing seasons. Like many artists before her, the garden has been a revitalizing force and inspiration for the artist, becoming an allegory apt for painting about life and its vicissitudes.

The lily pads in her garden, the patch of light that appears faithfully in her bedroom, the changing spectrum of colours in a nearby forest where Parson’s enjoys regular walks – all of these sensations of light and reverie are translated into iridescent paintings. It’s just the sense of quiet appreciation and solace we need at this time of year.

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17 January 2025 — 08 March 2025
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