DUAL NATURES EXHIBITION

PRESS RELEASE

Exhibition Title: DUAL NATURES
Artists: Hannah Thomas and Genevieve Leavold
Venue: Silk Mill Gallery, Frome, BA11 1PT
Dates: 26th February to 4th March

Dual Natures brings together the paintings of Hannah Thomas and Genevieve Leavold in an exhibition that examines the duality inherent in both the natural world and human experience. Rooted in these tensions, the exhibition explores the interplay between emotional and physical states, conscious and unconscious impulses, and the subjectivity of interpretation and visceral response in an audience.

Hannah Thomas’ practice is driven by an investigation into moral ambiguity and humanity’s conflicted relationship with nature.  Through a semi-abstracted process, with recurring potent motifs, the resulting landscapes pulse with hints of predation.  Through this lens, nature is presented as a site of constant movement and adaptation, where beauty and violence co-exist and identity remains unstable.

Genevieve Leavold is predominantly known for her freeform, organic paintings, her reverence for spontaneous gesture draws from Zen, Buddhism, and other philosophies that embrace the concept of universal consciousness.  Her approach is immediacy; working wet colour into wet and layering glazes gives her work its recognisable softness and movement..  Characterised by sweeping forms emerging from a dark background, her paintings developed from observations of nature in man-made environments.  

Both artists have paintings in collections in the UK and abroad and have exhibited extensively worldwide.   

Dual Natures invites viewers to reflect on the contradictions that shape our understanding of self and environment, and on the uneasy balance between attraction and repulsion that defines humanity’s relationship with the natural world.

Private View: Thursday 26th February 5-9pm

Artist Talk:  Saturday 28th Feb 10am (45mins) Ticketed £5.00

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Exhibition Opening Hours: 11-6pm

Contact: Genevieve Leavold or Hannah Thomas / studio@genevieveleavold.com  art@hannahthomas.net / www.genevieveleavold.com  www.hannahthomas.net