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'Floating Forms' Abstract Group Exhibition Launch Night

Join us to celebrate the opening of our new group show running through May and June. Floating Forms is an abstract exhibition that explores movement, balance, and the quiet spaces between structure and freedom. Through shifting shapes, layered textures, and expressive colour, the works evoke a sense of weightlessness and flow. Each piece invites viewers to pause, drift, and interpret freely.

Exhibiting Artists

Mike Batecko @mikebateeckoart

“Mike is a London-based intuitive abstract painter whose joy lives in the act of surrender, letting the unconscious lead him into vivid inner worlds full of alien life, primal forces, and unexpected discoveries. Influenced by psychological and shamanic exploration of the self, his canvases are portals — into worlds that exist just beyond ordinary reality.”

Eleanor Cowell @eljart

“I am an Abstract Artist exploring the concept of modern landscapes, using digitally informed gesture and colour through printmaking and painting. My work is rooted in traditional landscape painting historically acting as portals to other worlds. Considering this, I explore the impact of screens on our conception of landscapes, and the spatiality of devices. The act of scrolling exists in a limitless space, ungrounded. Her gestures exist in endless spaces, evoking the optimism of technological change and vacuum of digital space.”

 Melanie Mann @melaniemann_

“Melanie is a UK-based artist, drawing inspirations from the beauty and vitality of nature and humankind. Melanie’s acrylic paintings convey the appreciation of life, cherishing the small joys of everyday moments. Her painting, ‘Tower Bridge’, was bought by Andaz London Liverpool Street hotel. For leisure, Melanie runs half marathons, and loves hiking and playing piano.”

Dolly Kamany @dollyschopshop

“Dolly is a London-based British-Congolese artist and social researcher. Dolly's Chop Shop uses collage — drawing, painting, photography, print and found materials layered to make sense of economic realities, myths, and institutional power.”

David John Hilditch @dave_hilditch

“David allows paint to have a life of its own, creating complex and abstract environments where ideas of reality can emerge and transform free from the moorings of time, space and causality. This freedom is explored through the language of clouds in flux, hints of facial structures, abstract textures and forms from nature. Inspired by the masters of figurative oil painting and the writings of Spinoza, Kant and Hume, his watercolours and large scale oils reflect on perception, impermanence and identity in a way that is deep, engaging and open to endless interpretation.”

 Uchenna Odukwe

“I draw on the traditions of Afro Surrealism ,Expressionism  and Abstraction to explore a myth, death, dance and chaos. My abstract paintings combine an eclectic range of colours with forms extracted from dreams. I experiment with line colour, movement and dreamy imagery to create a vibrant paintings on paper and canvas that spring to life with vital energy, swirling, curling, and dancing across the canvas, graceful lines take centre stage in my works of varying thought -provoking, non-representational art that takes viewers on a quick chaotic journey full of free of association and surprise.”

Zhenzhen Tian @zhenzhentianart

“Zhen Zhen is a Chinese interdisciplinary artist whose practice blends painting with digital technology, exploring how data, networks, and systems shape human perception and contemporary environments. She approaches painting as an interface for the materialisation of digital concepts, positioning it as one output within a cross-disciplinary practice. Her practice operates across painting, installation, and digital methodologies, including 3D modelling, sound, and video, allowing ideas to move fluidly between media. She graduated from the Chengdu Academy of Fine Arts in 2010 and received an MA in Digital Direction from the Royal College of Art in 2023.”

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Hope to see you there!                           

Earlier Event: May 6
Life Drawing Workshop
Later Event: May 10
SE Signers' BSL Cafe Social