UPCOMING EXHIBITION 06-08/09/24
Jenna Tatham is excited to present "Dual Currents: A Utopian Longing in an Age of Ecological Destruction”, an evocative exhibition that delves into the duality of healing through the symbolic language of nature. With her ‘visions of unity’ Jenna offers a hopeful and imaginative glimpse into what it might look like to heal our inner landscapes and reconnect with the natural world, highlighting the interdependence of individual and collective healing. The exhibition will run from 06/08/24 to 08/08/24 with an opening reception on 06/08/24 at 4 pm-8 pm, held at 198, Hackney Road, E2 7QL.
Through a series of vivid, symbolic drawings and paintings, Jenna Tatham invites viewers to experience the complex, often paradoxical, nature of healing — where growth emerges from decay, and the mind’s intellectual processes exist in tension with the spirit’s more intuitive wisdom.“Recognising my practice as a form of alchemy, I use my canvas as an energetic mirror to the process of inner transmutation, so my artworks are both expressions and invocations of transformation,” says Jenna. "The exhibition challenges us to surrender to the natural ebb and flow of life, recognising that healing requires us to face the shadows as much as the light.”
However, these works go beyond mere personal introspection. By illustrating personal transmutation in the context of nature, the collection underscores a universal truth: individual healing is inherently linked to collective well-being. “I draw my visual language from nature, giving light to the way the patterns and laws governing the cosmos are reflected in miniature within human beings, ” says Jenna. The natural world is a shared environment, and its health reflects the state of our collective psyche. When one person heals, it contributes to the healing of the whole, much like a single tree contributing to the health of an entire forest. This collection challenges viewers to see their transformations not as isolated experiences but as contributions to a broader movement towards collective renewal and harmony with nature. “My art is a statement of faith in the belief that if individuals tend to their internal landscapes, nurturing their gardens so their rivers run clear, then the flourishing microcosms will pollinate the earth's ecosystem and the revival of bloom will surely be on its way.”
ABOUT THE ARTIST
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
Jenna is a multidisciplinary artist from Wiltshire. Inspired by the intersection of Spiritual Literature, Quantum Physics, and Psychology, Jenna’s paintings explore personal transmutation through the language of nature. With figures immersed in water and solid objects dissolving into formless waves of energy, Jenna’s meditative images express the flux between matter and spirit, external appearance and inner life, locating the infinite in material form and presence. Her approach to imagery resonates with the metaphysical ideals that painter William Blake and early Symbolist painting aimed for.
Jenna was first exposed to fine art at the age of four, as she recalls standing in front of La Gare de Perpignan at the Ludwig in Cologne, where she lived in her early childhood. She studied Art, Design and Media practice at Kingston School of Art and then moved to Florence to pursue traditional training in master oil painting techniques at Charles Cecil Studio. The impact of classical training combines with dynamic expressionism in Jenna's oil paintings, as she plays with the balance between controlled and intuitive mark-making, of maintaining and dissolving form. She completed her first solo exhibition titled 'When The Stream Walks On The Shore' in July of 2023 at Labatorio 13, Il Conventino in Florence. In January of 2024 she exposed two life-sized energetic mirrors as part of a group exhibition titled ‘Wunderkammer’, held at Aquaflor Firenze and curated by Artist Polina Stepanova. She is excited to present "Dual Currents: A Utopian Longing in an Age of Ecological Destruction,” a solo exhibition of vivid, symbolic drawings and paintings, in London on the 6th-8th of September 2024.
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