London Art Fair will present its 34th edition featuring over 100 selected galleries celebrating the best in Modern and Contemporary Art to discover and buy.
"In the sky we had rediscovered the moving principle of any work of art: the light, and the motion of colour." - Sonia Delaunay
Our curation of works selected for the London Art Fair 2022, concerns light and how it dances into and out of our physical and inner/emotional landscapes. The memories we hold, the places we live, the rooms we inhabit and the souls that inhabit us. The world around us can pulse and glow or darken and loom. Light is the symbol of hope we seek, search for and hold onto. We are always drawn in - to a flash of red amongst an orchestra of green or a glowing orb of yellow in an ocean of blue.
Alice Hartley's canvases and mono-paintings, made in her light flooded Deptford studio are immediate and alive with light. Bright yellow, peach and linden green under-washes burst through the blues and sooth us, bathing us in light.
Bristol based painter Adam Hedley's works are like painted novels, the light in his work tells the story. They feel nostalgic, harking back to a faded memory. His paintings ensnare the eyes - like glow worms dancing in a cave. Is it a figure, is it a candle? The light beckons us into the canvas.
Jess Allen's painted still lifes are interior moments of quiet, interrupted by light. Her world is a soothing pause from a technological life. Jess captures the graphic nature of sunlight and how it casts a shadow on our daily-doings, shifting ever so slowly throughout the day.
Opening Times
Wednesday 20th April 10.00-21.00 (Press & VIP)
Thursday 21st April 11.00-21.00
Friday 22nd April 11.00-19.00
Saturday 23rd April 11.00-19.00
Sunday 24th April 11.00-17.00
Alice Hartley
ALICE HARTLEY b.1988
Hartley was born in 1988 in the South Downs where she grew up, she graduated from Kingston University in 2010 with a BA hons in Illustration and from the RCA in 2013 with an MA in Fine Art Printmaking, she has since been selected for New Contemporaries, had residencies in Canada, New York and Athens. Hartley lives and works in South East London and continues to exhibit around the UK, Europe and North America.
Hartley set out in printmaking, making large scale woodcuts, her work referenced dreams, familiar landscapes and with fragments of her own text. Her time in the printmaking department at the RCA encouraged her to push scale as far as she could and take her mark making to a more expressive outlet in mono screen printing. The mark became more intuitive, forceful and the voice more urgent.
Jess Allen
JESS ALLEN b.1966
Jess Allen is an artist, who lives and works ‘off the beaten track.’ She has exhibited rarely, and her solitude from the art world, is apparent in the images she makes. Jess Allen was born in 1966 in Dorset, in the United Kingdom. She spent most of her childhood in London, and studied Foundation at Camberwell College of Arts. After gaining a BA Honours in Fine Art at Falmouth School of Art, she remained living in Cornwall.
She has shown work at Newlyn Art Gallery, the Mall Galleries in London, and at the Affordable Art Fair. Earlier this year she showed work in an exhibition in Sweden co curated by Brit Pruiksma of Mothflower, and the Magnus Karlsson Gallery. Her work is in many private collections, including in the States, UEA, Bahrain, Japan, and Europe. She is married with two grown up daughters, and has been a Partner in two businesses, previously Arthouse Frames, and currently Simon Allen Sculptor.
Adam Hedley
ADAM HEDLEY b.1985
Adam Hedley (b 1985, High Wycombe, UK) Lives and Works in Bristol. Notable exhibitions include: Intersect Palm Springs, California, presented by Galleri Urbane (2022) ; Flirting With the Border Guards, Terrace Gallery, London, curated by Jon Ridge (2021); YOUR FOOT IN MY FACE and other tectonic strategies, Kingsgate Project Space, London, curated by Dan Howard-Birt (2021); Wagtails on Moon Street & Over The Garden Wall – a joint presentation with Ben Risk, Stokes Croft Gallery, Bristol (2021); A Goose Summer, an outdoor exhibition curated by Hannah Murgatroyd and Martyn Cross, Bristol (2020); Turns on the Tarmac, Sid Motion Gallery, London (2017); Paper Cuts, Curated by Kristian Day at Transition Gallery, London (2016); Sampler, Curated by Kristian Day, Hosted at Arcade Fine Arts, London (2016).