Painting / Drawing
Painting / Drawing
Photography
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Carino Padrino 2025
Receding Tide / Y
Breathe in the Air
CONTEMPLATION
Acrylic on canvas 60 × 90 cm
Mixed media Photograph: 100 x 100 cm Animation: 3 min Book: 29.7 x 42 cm
Gesso, acrylic and spray paint on plywood tondo with light Diameter 110 cm
Photograph on aluminium 133 × 100 cm
2025
2025
2020
karenclondon Karen Topp
Kate Mayer & Frankie Boyle
kathawoodphotographicart Katha Wood
katemayerlondon frankie_boyle_studio
Karen Topp is a French-born, London-based multidisciplinary artist whose work invites viewers to engage bodily, zooming in and out to question process and perception. Using fragmentation, repetition and material traces, Topp explores both detail and structure, leaving visible clues of making to draw attention to texture and flow. The work foregrounds its own materiality, encouraging audiences to slow down, reflect on sensory experience, and discover connections between curiosity, memory and the act of looking. Loosely inspired by shallow water at low tide, the work examines the physical act of making and the balance between control and surrender. It focuses on how repetition affects both Karen Topp’s body and the materials, from the loosening of marks as Topp tires to the paper’s response under strain. All works originate from one reference photograph, cropped and altered to create a single linocut plate. That plate was repeatedly used to produce multiple print-drawings, which were then photographed, manipulated, and recombined into modular 2D displays and animations.
Katha Wood is a fine art photographer whose practice explores the human need for rest and recovery. Printing on brushed aluminium, silver or gold, Wood creates images that shift with light to form immersive experiences. Wood’s works capture moments where history and social meaning intersect, from architectural forms to abstractions of water or the moon. Drawing on neuroscience and nature, Wood explores contrast, cohesion and connection, offering viewers spaces for meditation and quiet healing. CONTEMPLATION was captured in Andalucía in the summer of 2020, during the brief reprieve following the first lockdown. The work centres on youth caught in the storm of 2020, teenagers poised at the edge of possibility only to have the ground pause beneath them. The image speaks to a particular loss of time that cannot be recovered. Framing adolescence within suspension, CONTEMPLATION becomes a visual record of dislocation, a meditation on fragility and the interruption of becoming.
_kamajing_ Kama Jing
Kate Mayer is a London-based self-taught abstract artist whose practice explores the relationship between sound, energy and emotion through colour and gesture. Mayer’s practice seeks to shift spatial energy, offering moments of resonance, presence and connection. Frankie Boyle is a London-based artist whose practice explores the emotional and psychological impact of light, space, and sensory perception. Her immersive installations connect art, neuroscience, and mental wellbeing. Breathe in the Air is a collaborative piece exploring the subtle rhythms that shape daily existence but often escape conscious awareness. The work combines Kate Mayer’s gestural, sound-responsive painting practice with Frankie Boyle’s research into circadian light cycles to create a ‘breathing’ painting—a visual and temporal field that shifts in harmony with the natural rhythm of human wakefulness and rest.
Kama Jing is an artist whose practice centres on painting. Jing explores the tension between personal spiritual pursuit and socially defined identity, addressing the anxieties that arise from this conflict. Through playful and unconventional perspectives, Jing invites viewers to engage with imagery in a lighthearted way before uncovering deeper social questions, challenging how identity is constructed and perceived in contemporary society. By reinterpreting the iconic image of The Godfather , Kama Jing challenges its traditional association with masculinity. The work invites viewers to overturn preconceived notions and critically reflect on how masculinity is constructed and how stereotypes surrounding male identity are formed.
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