In 2015 the young artist Gabriella Boyd was commissioned by the Folio Society to illustrate a new edition of Sigmund Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams. It’s not hard to see why. Boyd’s paintings depict the kind of logic only dreams can follow – jumbled up scraps of memory, distortions, misunderstandings, miscommunications, loves, fears, all woven together in a dreamlike narrative.

The title of her new exhibition at Blain/Southern, Help Yourself, is typically ambiguous, for Boyd playfully constructs domestic scenes with warm, positive colours but adds something rather discomforting to them.  Continue reading “Gabriella Boyd – Help Yourself” →

Lunar Voyage, British painter and printmaker Tom Hammick’s series of 17 woodcuts shown in its entirety for the first time, is a thoughtful and thought-provoking journey into space offering a metaphor for the artist’s own odyssey. He has poured into his work references from that era when space travel to the moon caught the imagination of a child growing up in the 1970s and influenced a generation of film makers, authors, architects and creative thinkers generally. Continue reading “Tom Hammick – Lunar Voyage” →