Lee‘s paintings combine crude forms, fashioned in deep emotive colours, with snippets of text which leave clues towards a larger narrative that the viewer is left to piece together. Lee’s work fuses melancholy and humour, with a distinctly British edge.
His obsession with painting has just led to him opening his new creative project/gallery space Love Waxes Cold in London’s East end.
Though her oil paintings, Kolpa explores the relation between humans and nature, while searching for female perspectives within patriarchal structures. She plays with the rectangular, artificial structure of paving stones and the organic forms of the female body.
Her paintings depict plants growing between the concrete, lush bushes along the roadside, and trees emerging from behind rooftops. Starting from a rigid nature-city and woman-man dualism, she aims to connect and merge these elements. Despite the city’s soil being covered with paved streets and concrete buildings, nature continues to thrive with resilience and beauty.
