Thoughts & Secret Gardens

Jorn Grothkopp | Kim Baker

We are proud to present “Thoughts and Secret Gardens”, an exhibition by two emerging painters: British artist Kim Baker and East German painter Jorn Grothkopp. The exhibition presents a collection of paintings that explore the abstract ideal of purity via the concept of the garden as an idealised, meditative space.

Kim Baker’s paintings capture all the intrigue and mystery of magical fairytale gardens. Using a layering process in oils she builds up a visual density that half-hides the forms in her paintings – marks come together to suggest a flower, a leaf or a clearing, and then flow out of representation into lush abstract brushstrokes and colour-play. Her dark environments make the perfect setting for the intensity of her marks, drawing the viewer into the paintings to then leaf their way through the fronds of colour and light. They allude to fresh, vibrant, verdant spaces, suggested by paint but fired by imagination. Kim Baker is a British artist living and working in London.

Jorn Grothkopp’s paintings present purified images of Koi fish that have a thoroughly mesesame is proud to present “Thoughts and Secret Gardens”, an exhibition by two emerging painters: British artist Kim Baker and East German painter Jorn Grothkopp. The exhibition presents a collection of paintings that explore the abstract ideal of purity via the concept of the garden as an idealised, meditative space.

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