Eugenia Alekseyev: London Day & Night at Highgate Galle
9 – 22 May 2025
The exhibition will be open:
Eugenia Alekseyev, a London-based landscape artist, presents her solo exhibition: London, Day and Night. Featuring urban scenes and the bucolic places of Hampstead Heath, the show is unmistakably local, yet offering a fresh look at familiar places.
Painting within the neo-romanticism tradition, Eugenia uses strong impasto brushstrokes to convey the immediacy of the scene. She opposes what she sees as the rational and rigid process of studio painting preferring to work plein air. Her relationship with her surroundings becomes as important as visual information alone: the raw charge of the rain, snow and wind become an integral part of each painting through brushwork, texture and colour.
Urban scenes explore the experience of a lone individual in a metropolis. The city becomes a symbol and a reflection of the society, and the windows of the buildings, often a feature of Eugenia’s paintings, a reflection of its soul: a way to communicate and understand it.
The landscapes stem from strong emotions – they are a spiritual and unashamedly romantic re-creation of an ephemeral, and yet palpably real world: a search for the sublime and an antidote to the accelerating pace of the modern urban life. They are enigmatic and feel both intimate and public; real and dreamy; but always animated and human.
Eugenia’s Hampstead paintings are held in the permanent collection of Burgh House, Hampstead.
About the Artist
Eugenia Alekseyev is an award-winning artist and art educator based in North London. While living in New York, she studied at the ASLNY. After moving to England, she has received numerous accolades, including Best Plein Air Painting in Plein Air Magazine (U.S.) and Best Painting in the Picture the Heath competition by Hampstead School of Art (2022 and 2024).
Friday 9 May 2025
Saturday 10 May 2025: 10.00 – 16.00
Sunday 11 May 2025: 10.00 – 16.00
Wednesday 14 May 2025: 13.00 – 17.00
Thursday 15 May 2025: 13.00 – 17.00
Friday 16 May 2025: 13.00 – 17.00
Saturday 17 May 2025: 10.00 – 16.00
Sunday 18 May 2025: 10.00 – 16.00
Wednesday 21 May 2025: 13.00 – 17.00
Thursday 22 May 2025: 13.00 – 17.0
Eugenia Alekseyev: London Day & Night at Highgate Galle
9 – 22 May 2025
The exhibition will be open:
Eugenia Alekseyev, a London-based landscape artist, presents her solo exhibition: London, Day and Night. Featuring urban scenes and the bucolic places of Hampstead Heath, the show is unmistakably local, yet offering a fresh look at familiar places.
Painting within the neo-romanticism tradition, Eugenia uses strong impasto brushstrokes to convey the immediacy of the scene. She opposes what she sees as the rational and rigid process of studio painting preferring to work plein air. Her relationship with her surroundings becomes as important as visual information alone: the raw charge of the rain, snow and wind become an integral part of each painting through brushwork, texture and colour.
Urban scenes explore the experience of a lone individual in a metropolis. The city becomes a symbol and a reflection of the society, and the windows of the buildings, often a feature of Eugenia’s paintings, a reflection of its soul: a way to communicate and understand it.
The landscapes stem from strong emotions – they are a spiritual and unashamedly romantic re-creation of an ephemeral, and yet palpably real world: a search for the sublime and an antidote to the accelerating pace of the modern urban life. They are enigmatic and feel both intimate and public; real and dreamy; but always animated and human.
Eugenia’s Hampstead paintings are held in the permanent collection of Burgh House, Hampstead.
About the Artist
Eugenia Alekseyev is an award-winning artist and art educator based in North London. While living in New York, she studied at the ASLNY. After moving to England, she has received numerous accolades, including Best Plein Air Painting in Plein Air Magazine (U.S.) and Best Painting in the Picture the Heath competition by Hampstead School of Art (2022 and 2024).
Friday 9 May 2025
Saturday 10 May 2025: 10.00 – 16.00
Sunday 11 May 2025: 10.00 – 16.00
Wednesday 14 May 2025: 13.00 – 17.00
Thursday 15 May 2025: 13.00 – 17.00
Friday 16 May 2025: 13.00 – 17.00
Saturday 17 May 2025: 10.00 – 16.00
Sunday 18 May 2025: 10.00 – 16.00
Wednesday 21 May 2025: 13.00 – 17.00
Thursday 22 May 2025: 13.00 – 17.0
Marilyn Southey: How does your garden…?
Since the beginning of time, man has endeavoured to create places of tranquility in communication with nature, places to uplift the spirits: gardens. In this, her second exhibition at Highgate Gallery, Southey shows work inspired, for the most part, by her garden in London and her garden in France, which has been evolving over the last thirty years. There are also more recent local paintings, of which Southey comments: “I have enjoyed discovering little gardens in Highgate that make such a difference to the landscape”.
Gallery times: Wednesdays to Fridays 13:00-17:00,
Saturdays & Sundays 10:00-16:00
Mondays & Tuesdays Closed
Private View: Friday 06 June 2025 18:00-20:30
An exhibition of paintings and prints in celebration of gardens large and small, in rural and urban landscapes.
Marilyn Southey: How does your garden…?
Since the beginning of time, man has endeavoured to create places of tranquility in communication with nature, places to uplift the spirits: gardens. In this, her second exhibition at Highgate Gallery, Southey shows work inspired, for the most part, by her garden in London and her garden in France, which has been evolving over the last thirty years. There are also more recent local paintings, of which Southey comments: “I have enjoyed discovering little gardens in Highgate that make such a difference to the landscape”.
Gallery times: Wednesdays to Fridays 13:00-17:00,
Saturdays & Sundays 10:00-16:00
Mondays & Tuesdays Closed
Private View: Friday 06 June 2025 18:00-20:30
An exhibition of paintings and prints in celebration of gardens large and small, in rural and urban landscapes.
Marilyn Southey: How does your garden…?
Since the beginning of time, man has endeavoured to create places of tranquility in communication with nature, places to uplift the spirits: gardens. In this, her second exhibition at Highgate Gallery, Southey shows work inspired, for the most part, by her garden in London and her garden in France, which has been evolving over the last thirty years. There are also more recent local paintings, of which Southey comments: “I have enjoyed discovering little gardens in Highgate that make such a difference to the landscape”.
Gallery times: Wednesdays to Fridays 13:00-17:00,
Saturdays & Sundays 10:00-16:00
Mondays & Tuesdays Closed
Private View: Friday 06 June 2025 18:00-20:30
An exhibition of paintings and prints in celebration of gardens large and small, in rural and urban landscapes.
Marilyn Southey: How does your garden…?
Since the beginning of time, man has endeavoured to create places of tranquility in communication with nature, places to uplift the spirits: gardens. In this, her second exhibition at Highgate Gallery, Southey shows work inspired, for the most part, by her garden in London and her garden in France, which has been evolving over the last thirty years. There are also more recent local paintings, of which Southey comments: “I have enjoyed discovering little gardens in Highgate that make such a difference to the landscape”.
Gallery times: Wednesdays to Fridays 13:00-17:00,
Saturdays & Sundays 10:00-16:00
Mondays & Tuesdays Closed
Private View: Friday 06 June 2025 18:00-20:30
An exhibition of paintings and prints in celebration of gardens large and small, in rural and urban landscapes.
Marilyn Southey: How does your garden…?
Since the beginning of time, man has endeavoured to create places of tranquility in communication with nature, places to uplift the spirits: gardens. In this, her second exhibition at Highgate Gallery, Southey shows work inspired, for the most part, by her garden in London and her garden in France, which has been evolving over the last thirty years. There are also more recent local paintings, of which Southey comments: “I have enjoyed discovering little gardens in Highgate that make such a difference to the landscape”.
Gallery times: Wednesdays to Fridays 13:00-17:00,
Saturdays & Sundays 10:00-16:00
Mondays & Tuesdays Closed
Private View: Friday 06 June 2025 18:00-20:30
An exhibition of paintings and prints in celebration of gardens large and small, in rural and urban landscapes.
Marilyn Southey: How does your garden…?
Since the beginning of time, man has endeavoured to create places of tranquility in communication with nature, places to uplift the spirits: gardens. In this, her second exhibition at Highgate Gallery, Southey shows work inspired, for the most part, by her garden in London and her garden in France, which has been evolving over the last thirty years. There are also more recent local paintings, of which Southey comments: “I have enjoyed discovering little gardens in Highgate that make such a difference to the landscape”.
Gallery times: Wednesdays to Fridays 13:00-17:00,
Saturdays & Sundays 10:00-16:00
Mondays & Tuesdays Closed
Private View: Friday 06 June 2025 18:00-20:30
An exhibition of paintings and prints in celebration of gardens large and small, in rural and urban landscapes.
Marilyn Southey: How does your garden…?
Since the beginning of time, man has endeavoured to create places of tranquility in communication with nature, places to uplift the spirits: gardens. In this, her second exhibition at Highgate Gallery, Southey shows work inspired, for the most part, by her garden in London and her garden in France, which has been evolving over the last thirty years. There are also more recent local paintings, of which Southey comments: “I have enjoyed discovering little gardens in Highgate that make such a difference to the landscape”.
Gallery times: Wednesdays to Fridays 13:00-17:00,
Saturdays & Sundays 10:00-16:00
Mondays & Tuesdays Closed
Private View: Friday 06 June 2025 18:00-20:30
An exhibition of paintings and prints in celebration of gardens large and small, in rural and urban landscapes.
Marilyn Southey: How does your garden…?
Since the beginning of time, man has endeavoured to create places of tranquility in communication with nature, places to uplift the spirits: gardens. In this, her second exhibition at Highgate Gallery, Southey shows work inspired, for the most part, by her garden in London and her garden in France, which has been evolving over the last thirty years. There are also more recent local paintings, of which Southey comments: “I have enjoyed discovering little gardens in Highgate that make such a difference to the landscape”.
Gallery times: Wednesdays to Fridays 13:00-17:00,
Saturdays & Sundays 10:00-16:00
Mondays & Tuesdays Closed
Private View: Friday 06 June 2025 18:00-20:30
An exhibition of paintings and prints in celebration of gardens large and small, in rural and urban landscapes.
Marilyn Southey: How does your garden…?
Since the beginning of time, man has endeavoured to create places of tranquility in communication with nature, places to uplift the spirits: gardens. In this, her second exhibition at Highgate Gallery, Southey shows work inspired, for the most part, by her garden in London and her garden in France, which has been evolving over the last thirty years. There are also more recent local paintings, of which Southey comments: “I have enjoyed discovering little gardens in Highgate that make such a difference to the landscape”.
Gallery times: Wednesdays to Fridays 13:00-17:00,
Saturdays & Sundays 10:00-16:00
Mondays & Tuesdays Closed
Private View: Friday 06 June 2025 18:00-20:30
An exhibition of paintings and prints in celebration of gardens large and small, in rural and urban landscapes.
Marilyn Southey: How does your garden…?
Since the beginning of time, man has endeavoured to create places of tranquility in communication with nature, places to uplift the spirits: gardens. In this, her second exhibition at Highgate Gallery, Southey shows work inspired, for the most part, by her garden in London and her garden in France, which has been evolving over the last thirty years. There are also more recent local paintings, of which Southey comments: “I have enjoyed discovering little gardens in Highgate that make such a difference to the landscape”.
Gallery times: Wednesdays to Fridays 13:00-17:00,
Saturdays & Sundays 10:00-16:00
Mondays & Tuesdays Closed
Private View: Friday 06 June 2025 18:00-20:30
An exhibition of paintings and prints in celebration of gardens large and small, in rural and urban landscapes.
Exhibition at Highgate Gallery: Fates and Furies
4 – 17 July 2025
Vivien Thomason is a consummate colourist. She drips, swirls, layers and streams colour sometimes balanced and harmonious, sometimes menacing and unexpected. Her abstract works are a clear statement about the power of colour to energise our senses and feed our thoughts and fantasies.
The traumas of the earth and the rage of long-forgotten victims are all recurring themes. Unashamedly gothic, Vivien often incorporates apocalyptic figures storming from the canvas like ‘Furies’ on a quest to avenge the injustices and misogyny of the world. Vivien also re-works Gauguin’s Tahitian paintings, reclaiming the exploited young women as empowered ‘witches’, no longer weak or submissive. Other compositions include ‘maps’ of the sea and land incorporating bird and animal motifs, ‘necklace’ paintings with large carved beads layered over mourning ‘figures’, lost in lament. Regardless of the dramatic themes, touches of humour are also in evidence. Her paintings are rendered and dripped in liquid acrylics.
After a lengthy career in fashion, Vivien picked up her paints and poured her passions onto canvas. Her career made her profoundly aware how colour can appeal and affect mood. It also clarified how women are treated and often exploited in the industry. After years of faster and faster fashion, Vivien seeks to make amends by creating work that references the state of our world today and the climate catastrophe.
Gallery times: Wednesdays to Fridays 13:00-17:00,
Saturdays & Sundays 10:00-16:00
Mondays & Tuesdays Closed
Private View: Friday 04 July 2025 18:00-20:30
Exhibition at Highgate Gallery: Fates and Furies
4 – 17 July 2025
Vivien Thomason is a consummate colourist. She drips, swirls, layers and streams colour sometimes balanced and harmonious, sometimes menacing and unexpected. Her abstract works are a clear statement about the power of colour to energise our senses and feed our thoughts and fantasies.
The traumas of the earth and the rage of long-forgotten victims are all recurring themes. Unashamedly gothic, Vivien often incorporates apocalyptic figures storming from the canvas like ‘Furies’ on a quest to avenge the injustices and misogyny of the world. Vivien also re-works Gauguin’s Tahitian paintings, reclaiming the exploited young women as empowered ‘witches’, no longer weak or submissive. Other compositions include ‘maps’ of the sea and land incorporating bird and animal motifs, ‘necklace’ paintings with large carved beads layered over mourning ‘figures’, lost in lament. Regardless of the dramatic themes, touches of humour are also in evidence. Her paintings are rendered and dripped in liquid acrylics.
After a lengthy career in fashion, Vivien picked up her paints and poured her passions onto canvas. Her career made her profoundly aware how colour can appeal and affect mood. It also clarified how women are treated and often exploited in the industry. After years of faster and faster fashion, Vivien seeks to make amends by creating work that references the state of our world today and the climate catastrophe.
Gallery times: Wednesdays to Fridays 13:00-17:00,
Saturdays & Sundays 10:00-16:00
Mondays & Tuesdays Closed
Private View: Friday 04 July 2025 18:00-20:30
Exhibition at Highgate Gallery: Fates and Furies
4 – 17 July 2025
Vivien Thomason is a consummate colourist. She drips, swirls, layers and streams colour sometimes balanced and harmonious, sometimes menacing and unexpected. Her abstract works are a clear statement about the power of colour to energise our senses and feed our thoughts and fantasies.
The traumas of the earth and the rage of long-forgotten victims are all recurring themes. Unashamedly gothic, Vivien often incorporates apocalyptic figures storming from the canvas like ‘Furies’ on a quest to avenge the injustices and misogyny of the world. Vivien also re-works Gauguin’s Tahitian paintings, reclaiming the exploited young women as empowered ‘witches’, no longer weak or submissive. Other compositions include ‘maps’ of the sea and land incorporating bird and animal motifs, ‘necklace’ paintings with large carved beads layered over mourning ‘figures’, lost in lament. Regardless of the dramatic themes, touches of humour are also in evidence. Her paintings are rendered and dripped in liquid acrylics.
After a lengthy career in fashion, Vivien picked up her paints and poured her passions onto canvas. Her career made her profoundly aware how colour can appeal and affect mood. It also clarified how women are treated and often exploited in the industry. After years of faster and faster fashion, Vivien seeks to make amends by creating work that references the state of our world today and the climate catastrophe.
Gallery times: Wednesdays to Fridays 13:00-17:00,
Saturdays & Sundays 10:00-16:00
Mondays & Tuesdays Closed
Private View: Friday 04 July 2025 18:00-20:30
Exhibition at Highgate Gallery: Fates and Furies
4 – 17 July 2025
Vivien Thomason is a consummate colourist. She drips, swirls, layers and streams colour sometimes balanced and harmonious, sometimes menacing and unexpected. Her abstract works are a clear statement about the power of colour to energise our senses and feed our thoughts and fantasies.
The traumas of the earth and the rage of long-forgotten victims are all recurring themes. Unashamedly gothic, Vivien often incorporates apocalyptic figures storming from the canvas like ‘Furies’ on a quest to avenge the injustices and misogyny of the world. Vivien also re-works Gauguin’s Tahitian paintings, reclaiming the exploited young women as empowered ‘witches’, no longer weak or submissive. Other compositions include ‘maps’ of the sea and land incorporating bird and animal motifs, ‘necklace’ paintings with large carved beads layered over mourning ‘figures’, lost in lament. Regardless of the dramatic themes, touches of humour are also in evidence. Her paintings are rendered and dripped in liquid acrylics.
After a lengthy career in fashion, Vivien picked up her paints and poured her passions onto canvas. Her career made her profoundly aware how colour can appeal and affect mood. It also clarified how women are treated and often exploited in the industry. After years of faster and faster fashion, Vivien seeks to make amends by creating work that references the state of our world today and the climate catastrophe.
Gallery times: Wednesdays to Fridays 13:00-17:00,
Saturdays & Sundays 10:00-16:00
Mondays & Tuesdays Closed
Private View: Friday 04 July 2025 18:00-20:30
Exhibition at Highgate Gallery: Fates and Furies
4 – 17 July 2025
Vivien Thomason is a consummate colourist. She drips, swirls, layers and streams colour sometimes balanced and harmonious, sometimes menacing and unexpected. Her abstract works are a clear statement about the power of colour to energise our senses and feed our thoughts and fantasies.
The traumas of the earth and the rage of long-forgotten victims are all recurring themes. Unashamedly gothic, Vivien often incorporates apocalyptic figures storming from the canvas like ‘Furies’ on a quest to avenge the injustices and misogyny of the world. Vivien also re-works Gauguin’s Tahitian paintings, reclaiming the exploited young women as empowered ‘witches’, no longer weak or submissive. Other compositions include ‘maps’ of the sea and land incorporating bird and animal motifs, ‘necklace’ paintings with large carved beads layered over mourning ‘figures’, lost in lament. Regardless of the dramatic themes, touches of humour are also in evidence. Her paintings are rendered and dripped in liquid acrylics.
After a lengthy career in fashion, Vivien picked up her paints and poured her passions onto canvas. Her career made her profoundly aware how colour can appeal and affect mood. It also clarified how women are treated and often exploited in the industry. After years of faster and faster fashion, Vivien seeks to make amends by creating work that references the state of our world today and the climate catastrophe.
Gallery times: Wednesdays to Fridays 13:00-17:00,
Saturdays & Sundays 10:00-16:00
Mondays & Tuesdays Closed
Private View: Friday 04 July 2025 18:00-20:30
Exhibition at Highgate Gallery: Fates and Furies
4 – 17 July 2025
Vivien Thomason is a consummate colourist. She drips, swirls, layers and streams colour sometimes balanced and harmonious, sometimes menacing and unexpected. Her abstract works are a clear statement about the power of colour to energise our senses and feed our thoughts and fantasies.
The traumas of the earth and the rage of long-forgotten victims are all recurring themes. Unashamedly gothic, Vivien often incorporates apocalyptic figures storming from the canvas like ‘Furies’ on a quest to avenge the injustices and misogyny of the world. Vivien also re-works Gauguin’s Tahitian paintings, reclaiming the exploited young women as empowered ‘witches’, no longer weak or submissive. Other compositions include ‘maps’ of the sea and land incorporating bird and animal motifs, ‘necklace’ paintings with large carved beads layered over mourning ‘figures’, lost in lament. Regardless of the dramatic themes, touches of humour are also in evidence. Her paintings are rendered and dripped in liquid acrylics.
After a lengthy career in fashion, Vivien picked up her paints and poured her passions onto canvas. Her career made her profoundly aware how colour can appeal and affect mood. It also clarified how women are treated and often exploited in the industry. After years of faster and faster fashion, Vivien seeks to make amends by creating work that references the state of our world today and the climate catastrophe.
Gallery times: Wednesdays to Fridays 13:00-17:00,
Saturdays & Sundays 10:00-16:00
Mondays & Tuesdays Closed
Private View: Friday 04 July 2025 18:00-20:30
Exhibition at Highgate Gallery: Fates and Furies
4 – 17 July 2025
Vivien Thomason is a consummate colourist. She drips, swirls, layers and streams colour sometimes balanced and harmonious, sometimes menacing and unexpected. Her abstract works are a clear statement about the power of colour to energise our senses and feed our thoughts and fantasies.
The traumas of the earth and the rage of long-forgotten victims are all recurring themes. Unashamedly gothic, Vivien often incorporates apocalyptic figures storming from the canvas like ‘Furies’ on a quest to avenge the injustices and misogyny of the world. Vivien also re-works Gauguin’s Tahitian paintings, reclaiming the exploited young women as empowered ‘witches’, no longer weak or submissive. Other compositions include ‘maps’ of the sea and land incorporating bird and animal motifs, ‘necklace’ paintings with large carved beads layered over mourning ‘figures’, lost in lament. Regardless of the dramatic themes, touches of humour are also in evidence. Her paintings are rendered and dripped in liquid acrylics.
After a lengthy career in fashion, Vivien picked up her paints and poured her passions onto canvas. Her career made her profoundly aware how colour can appeal and affect mood. It also clarified how women are treated and often exploited in the industry. After years of faster and faster fashion, Vivien seeks to make amends by creating work that references the state of our world today and the climate catastrophe.
Gallery times: Wednesdays to Fridays 13:00-17:00,
Saturdays & Sundays 10:00-16:00
Mondays & Tuesdays Closed
Private View: Friday 04 July 2025 18:00-20:30
Exhibition at Highgate Gallery: Fates and Furies
4 – 17 July 2025
Vivien Thomason is a consummate colourist. She drips, swirls, layers and streams colour sometimes balanced and harmonious, sometimes menacing and unexpected. Her abstract works are a clear statement about the power of colour to energise our senses and feed our thoughts and fantasies.
The traumas of the earth and the rage of long-forgotten victims are all recurring themes. Unashamedly gothic, Vivien often incorporates apocalyptic figures storming from the canvas like ‘Furies’ on a quest to avenge the injustices and misogyny of the world. Vivien also re-works Gauguin’s Tahitian paintings, reclaiming the exploited young women as empowered ‘witches’, no longer weak or submissive. Other compositions include ‘maps’ of the sea and land incorporating bird and animal motifs, ‘necklace’ paintings with large carved beads layered over mourning ‘figures’, lost in lament. Regardless of the dramatic themes, touches of humour are also in evidence. Her paintings are rendered and dripped in liquid acrylics.
After a lengthy career in fashion, Vivien picked up her paints and poured her passions onto canvas. Her career made her profoundly aware how colour can appeal and affect mood. It also clarified how women are treated and often exploited in the industry. After years of faster and faster fashion, Vivien seeks to make amends by creating work that references the state of our world today and the climate catastrophe.
Gallery times: Wednesdays to Fridays 13:00-17:00,
Saturdays & Sundays 10:00-16:00
Mondays & Tuesdays Closed
Private View: Friday 04 July 2025 18:00-20:30
Exhibition at Highgate Gallery: Fates and Furies
4 – 17 July 2025
Vivien Thomason is a consummate colourist. She drips, swirls, layers and streams colour sometimes balanced and harmonious, sometimes menacing and unexpected. Her abstract works are a clear statement about the power of colour to energise our senses and feed our thoughts and fantasies.
The traumas of the earth and the rage of long-forgotten victims are all recurring themes. Unashamedly gothic, Vivien often incorporates apocalyptic figures storming from the canvas like ‘Furies’ on a quest to avenge the injustices and misogyny of the world. Vivien also re-works Gauguin’s Tahitian paintings, reclaiming the exploited young women as empowered ‘witches’, no longer weak or submissive. Other compositions include ‘maps’ of the sea and land incorporating bird and animal motifs, ‘necklace’ paintings with large carved beads layered over mourning ‘figures’, lost in lament. Regardless of the dramatic themes, touches of humour are also in evidence. Her paintings are rendered and dripped in liquid acrylics.
After a lengthy career in fashion, Vivien picked up her paints and poured her passions onto canvas. Her career made her profoundly aware how colour can appeal and affect mood. It also clarified how women are treated and often exploited in the industry. After years of faster and faster fashion, Vivien seeks to make amends by creating work that references the state of our world today and the climate catastrophe.
Gallery times: Wednesdays to Fridays 13:00-17:00,
Saturdays & Sundays 10:00-16:00
Mondays & Tuesdays Closed
Private View: Friday 04 July 2025 18:00-20:30
Exhibition at Highgate Gallery: Fates and Furies
4 – 17 July 2025
Vivien Thomason is a consummate colourist. She drips, swirls, layers and streams colour sometimes balanced and harmonious, sometimes menacing and unexpected. Her abstract works are a clear statement about the power of colour to energise our senses and feed our thoughts and fantasies.
The traumas of the earth and the rage of long-forgotten victims are all recurring themes. Unashamedly gothic, Vivien often incorporates apocalyptic figures storming from the canvas like ‘Furies’ on a quest to avenge the injustices and misogyny of the world. Vivien also re-works Gauguin’s Tahitian paintings, reclaiming the exploited young women as empowered ‘witches’, no longer weak or submissive. Other compositions include ‘maps’ of the sea and land incorporating bird and animal motifs, ‘necklace’ paintings with large carved beads layered over mourning ‘figures’, lost in lament. Regardless of the dramatic themes, touches of humour are also in evidence. Her paintings are rendered and dripped in liquid acrylics.
After a lengthy career in fashion, Vivien picked up her paints and poured her passions onto canvas. Her career made her profoundly aware how colour can appeal and affect mood. It also clarified how women are treated and often exploited in the industry. After years of faster and faster fashion, Vivien seeks to make amends by creating work that references the state of our world today and the climate catastrophe.
Gallery times: Wednesdays to Fridays 13:00-17:00,
Saturdays & Sundays 10:00-16:00
Mondays & Tuesdays Closed
Private View: Friday 04 July 2025 18:00-20:30
Wilma Johnson
Ghosts of the Madruga
12 – 25 September
The Madrugada – the time between midnight and dawn when barriers between
the worlds are fragile and dreams and reality mingle.
Wilma Johnson creates vivid dreamscapes in which real people cross paths
with goddesses, gorgons and mythological creatures.
Many are set in her childhood home in Highgate which was destroyed by fire
– the spirit of the house has presence of its own.
Highgate Gallery. Wilma Johnson: Ghosts of the Madrugada will be open:
Friday 12 September: 13.00 – 17.00
Saturday 13 September: 10.00 – 16.00
Sunday 14 September: : 10.00 – 16.00
Wednesday 17 September: 13.00 – 17.00
Thursday 18 September: 13.00 – 17.00
Friday 19 September: 13.00 – 17.00
Saturday 20 September: 10.00 – 16.00
Sunday 21 September: 10.00 – 16.00
Wednesday 24 September: 13.00 – 17.00
Thursday 25 September: 13.00 – 17.00
Wilma Johnson
Ghosts of the Madruga
12 – 25 September
The Madrugada – the time between midnight and dawn when barriers between
the worlds are fragile and dreams and reality mingle.
Wilma Johnson creates vivid dreamscapes in which real people cross paths
with goddesses, gorgons and mythological creatures.
Many are set in her childhood home in Highgate which was destroyed by fire
– the spirit of the house has presence of its own.
Highgate Gallery. Wilma Johnson: Ghosts of the Madrugada will be open:
Friday 12 September: 13.00 – 17.00
Saturday 13 September: 10.00 – 16.00
Sunday 14 September: : 10.00 – 16.00
Wednesday 17 September: 13.00 – 17.00
Thursday 18 September: 13.00 – 17.00
Friday 19 September: 13.00 – 17.00
Saturday 20 September: 10.00 – 16.00
Sunday 21 September: 10.00 – 16.00
Wednesday 24 September: 13.00 – 17.00
Thursday 25 September: 13.00 – 17.00
Wilma Johnson
Ghosts of the Madruga
12 – 25 September
The Madrugada – the time between midnight and dawn when barriers between
the worlds are fragile and dreams and reality mingle.
Wilma Johnson creates vivid dreamscapes in which real people cross paths
with goddesses, gorgons and mythological creatures.
Many are set in her childhood home in Highgate which was destroyed by fire
– the spirit of the house has presence of its own.
Highgate Gallery. Wilma Johnson: Ghosts of the Madrugada will be open:
Friday 12 September: 13.00 – 17.00
Saturday 13 September: 10.00 – 16.00
Sunday 14 September: : 10.00 – 16.00
Wednesday 17 September: 13.00 – 17.00
Thursday 18 September: 13.00 – 17.00
Friday 19 September: 13.00 – 17.00
Saturday 20 September: 10.00 – 16.00
Sunday 21 September: 10.00 – 16.00
Wednesday 24 September: 13.00 – 17.00
Thursday 25 September: 13.00 – 17.00
Wilma Johnson
Ghosts of the Madruga
12 – 25 September
The Madrugada – the time between midnight and dawn when barriers between
the worlds are fragile and dreams and reality mingle.
Wilma Johnson creates vivid dreamscapes in which real people cross paths
with goddesses, gorgons and mythological creatures.
Many are set in her childhood home in Highgate which was destroyed by fire
– the spirit of the house has presence of its own.
Highgate Gallery. Wilma Johnson: Ghosts of the Madrugada will be open:
Friday 12 September: 13.00 – 17.00
Saturday 13 September: 10.00 – 16.00
Sunday 14 September: : 10.00 – 16.00
Wednesday 17 September: 13.00 – 17.00
Thursday 18 September: 13.00 – 17.00
Friday 19 September: 13.00 – 17.00
Saturday 20 September: 10.00 – 16.00
Sunday 21 September: 10.00 – 16.00
Wednesday 24 September: 13.00 – 17.00
Thursday 25 September: 13.00 – 17.00
Wilma Johnson
Ghosts of the Madruga
12 – 25 September
The Madrugada – the time between midnight and dawn when barriers between
the worlds are fragile and dreams and reality mingle.
Wilma Johnson creates vivid dreamscapes in which real people cross paths
with goddesses, gorgons and mythological creatures.
Many are set in her childhood home in Highgate which was destroyed by fire
– the spirit of the house has presence of its own.
Highgate Gallery. Wilma Johnson: Ghosts of the Madrugada will be open:
Friday 12 September: 13.00 – 17.00
Saturday 13 September: 10.00 – 16.00
Sunday 14 September: : 10.00 – 16.00
Wednesday 17 September: 13.00 – 17.00
Thursday 18 September: 13.00 – 17.00
Friday 19 September: 13.00 – 17.00
Saturday 20 September: 10.00 – 16.00
Sunday 21 September: 10.00 – 16.00
Wednesday 24 September: 13.00 – 17.00
Thursday 25 September: 13.00 – 17.00
Wilma Johnson
Ghosts of the Madruga
12 – 25 September
The Madrugada – the time between midnight and dawn when barriers between
the worlds are fragile and dreams and reality mingle.
Wilma Johnson creates vivid dreamscapes in which real people cross paths
with goddesses, gorgons and mythological creatures.
Many are set in her childhood home in Highgate which was destroyed by fire
– the spirit of the house has presence of its own.
Highgate Gallery. Wilma Johnson: Ghosts of the Madrugada will be open:
Friday 12 September: 13.00 – 17.00
Saturday 13 September: 10.00 – 16.00
Sunday 14 September: : 10.00 – 16.00
Wednesday 17 September: 13.00 – 17.00
Thursday 18 September: 13.00 – 17.00
Friday 19 September: 13.00 – 17.00
Saturday 20 September: 10.00 – 16.00
Sunday 21 September: 10.00 – 16.00
Wednesday 24 September: 13.00 – 17.00
Thursday 25 September: 13.00 – 17.00
Wilma Johnson
Ghosts of the Madruga
12 – 25 September
The Madrugada – the time between midnight and dawn when barriers between
the worlds are fragile and dreams and reality mingle.
Wilma Johnson creates vivid dreamscapes in which real people cross paths
with goddesses, gorgons and mythological creatures.
Many are set in her childhood home in Highgate which was destroyed by fire
– the spirit of the house has presence of its own.
Highgate Gallery. Wilma Johnson: Ghosts of the Madrugada will be open:
Friday 12 September: 13.00 – 17.00
Saturday 13 September: 10.00 – 16.00
Sunday 14 September: : 10.00 – 16.00
Wednesday 17 September: 13.00 – 17.00
Thursday 18 September: 13.00 – 17.00
Friday 19 September: 13.00 – 17.00
Saturday 20 September: 10.00 – 16.00
Sunday 21 September: 10.00 – 16.00
Wednesday 24 September: 13.00 – 17.00
Thursday 25 September: 13.00 – 17.00
Wilma Johnson
Ghosts of the Madruga
12 – 25 September
The Madrugada – the time between midnight and dawn when barriers between
the worlds are fragile and dreams and reality mingle.
Wilma Johnson creates vivid dreamscapes in which real people cross paths
with goddesses, gorgons and mythological creatures.
Many are set in her childhood home in Highgate which was destroyed by fire
– the spirit of the house has presence of its own.
Highgate Gallery. Wilma Johnson: Ghosts of the Madrugada will be open:
Friday 12 September: 13.00 – 17.00
Saturday 13 September: 10.00 – 16.00
Sunday 14 September: : 10.00 – 16.00
Wednesday 17 September: 13.00 – 17.00
Thursday 18 September: 13.00 – 17.00
Friday 19 September: 13.00 – 17.00
Saturday 20 September: 10.00 – 16.00
Sunday 21 September: 10.00 – 16.00
Wednesday 24 September: 13.00 – 17.00
Thursday 25 September: 13.00 – 17.00
Wilma Johnson
Ghosts of the Madruga
12 – 25 September
The Madrugada – the time between midnight and dawn when barriers between
the worlds are fragile and dreams and reality mingle.
Wilma Johnson creates vivid dreamscapes in which real people cross paths
with goddesses, gorgons and mythological creatures.
Many are set in her childhood home in Highgate which was destroyed by fire
– the spirit of the house has presence of its own.
Highgate Gallery. Wilma Johnson: Ghosts of the Madrugada will be open:
Friday 12 September: 13.00 – 17.00
Saturday 13 September: 10.00 – 16.00
Sunday 14 September: : 10.00 – 16.00
Wednesday 17 September: 13.00 – 17.00
Thursday 18 September: 13.00 – 17.00
Friday 19 September: 13.00 – 17.00
Saturday 20 September: 10.00 – 16.00
Sunday 21 September: 10.00 – 16.00
Wednesday 24 September: 13.00 – 17.00
Thursday 25 September: 13.00 – 17.00
Wilma Johnson
Ghosts of the Madruga
12 – 25 September
The Madrugada – the time between midnight and dawn when barriers between
the worlds are fragile and dreams and reality mingle.
Wilma Johnson creates vivid dreamscapes in which real people cross paths
with goddesses, gorgons and mythological creatures.
Many are set in her childhood home in Highgate which was destroyed by fire
– the spirit of the house has presence of its own.
Highgate Gallery. Wilma Johnson: Ghosts of the Madrugada will be open:
Friday 12 September: 13.00 – 17.00
Saturday 13 September: 10.00 – 16.00
Sunday 14 September: : 10.00 – 16.00
Wednesday 17 September: 13.00 – 17.00
Thursday 18 September: 13.00 – 17.00
Friday 19 September: 13.00 – 17.00
Saturday 20 September: 10.00 – 16.00
Sunday 21 September: 10.00 – 16.00
Wednesday 24 September: 13.00 – 17.00
Thursday 25 September: 13.00 – 17.00
Highgate Gallery in conjunction with The Wolf Collective is pleased to announce a solo exhibition by acclaimed British artist Adrian Hemming.
This exhibition brings together a significant body of work spanning Hemming’s decades-long career,
including oil paintings, prints, drawings, and watercolours.
Known for his meditative landscapes and luminous handling of colour, Hemming’s practice invites viewers
to reflect on how memory shapes perception—and how the land itself becomes a repository of both
personal and collective experience.
The Shape of Memory engages deeply with themes drawn from cultural history and philosophy.
Echoing Simon Schama’s Landscape and Memory, the exhibition explores landscape not merely
as a backdrop, but as a force through which identity, myth, and memory are forged. Hemming’s
work also resonates with both Nietzsche and Proust’s reflections on conscious remembering in the
body, where memory is not only stored in the mind but experienced viscerally—through rhythm,
sensation, and image.
As noted in the late Professor Denis Cosgrove’s essay on Hemming, his landscapes are “charged with the
geography of emotion,” operating between place and psyche. Hemming’s canvases often blur the boundary
between inner and outer worlds, rendering terrain that is at once real and remembered, abstract and intimate.
This exhibition offers a rare opportunity to engage with the full emotional and intellectual range of
Hemming’s work—a practice deeply rooted in the poetics of place and the subtle architectures of memory.
Adrian Hemming at Highgate Gallery opening times:
Friday 14 November: 13.00 – 17.00
Saturday 15 & Sunday 16 November: 10.00 – 16.00
Wednesday 19 – Friday 21 November: 13.00 – 17.00
Saturday 22 & Sunday 23 November: 10.00 – 16.00
Wednesday 26 & Thursday 27 November: 13.00 – 17.00
Highgate Gallery in conjunction with The Wolf Collective is pleased to announce a solo exhibition by acclaimed British artist Adrian Hemming.
This exhibition brings together a significant body of work spanning Hemming’s decades-long career,
including oil paintings, prints, drawings, and watercolours.
Known for his meditative landscapes and luminous handling of colour, Hemming’s practice invites viewers
to reflect on how memory shapes perception—and how the land itself becomes a repository of both
personal and collective experience.
The Shape of Memory engages deeply with themes drawn from cultural history and philosophy.
Echoing Simon Schama’s Landscape and Memory, the exhibition explores landscape not merely
as a backdrop, but as a force through which identity, myth, and memory are forged. Hemming’s
work also resonates with both Nietzsche and Proust’s reflections on conscious remembering in the
body, where memory is not only stored in the mind but experienced viscerally—through rhythm,
sensation, and image.
As noted in the late Professor Denis Cosgrove’s essay on Hemming, his landscapes are “charged with the
geography of emotion,” operating between place and psyche. Hemming’s canvases often blur the boundary
between inner and outer worlds, rendering terrain that is at once real and remembered, abstract and intimate.
This exhibition offers a rare opportunity to engage with the full emotional and intellectual range of
Hemming’s work—a practice deeply rooted in the poetics of place and the subtle architectures of memory.
Adrian Hemming at Highgate Gallery opening times:
Friday 14 November: 13.00 – 17.00
Saturday 15 & Sunday 16 November: 10.00 – 16.00
Wednesday 19 – Friday 21 November: 13.00 – 17.00
Saturday 22 & Sunday 23 November: 10.00 – 16.00
Wednesday 26 & Thursday 27 November: 13.00 – 17.00
Highgate Gallery in conjunction with The Wolf Collective is pleased to announce a solo exhibition by acclaimed British artist Adrian Hemming.
This exhibition brings together a significant body of work spanning Hemming’s decades-long career,
including oil paintings, prints, drawings, and watercolours.
Known for his meditative landscapes and luminous handling of colour, Hemming’s practice invites viewers
to reflect on how memory shapes perception—and how the land itself becomes a repository of both
personal and collective experience.
The Shape of Memory engages deeply with themes drawn from cultural history and philosophy.
Echoing Simon Schama’s Landscape and Memory, the exhibition explores landscape not merely
as a backdrop, but as a force through which identity, myth, and memory are forged. Hemming’s
work also resonates with both Nietzsche and Proust’s reflections on conscious remembering in the
body, where memory is not only stored in the mind but experienced viscerally—through rhythm,
sensation, and image.
As noted in the late Professor Denis Cosgrove’s essay on Hemming, his landscapes are “charged with the
geography of emotion,” operating between place and psyche. Hemming’s canvases often blur the boundary
between inner and outer worlds, rendering terrain that is at once real and remembered, abstract and intimate.
This exhibition offers a rare opportunity to engage with the full emotional and intellectual range of
Hemming’s work—a practice deeply rooted in the poetics of place and the subtle architectures of memory.
Adrian Hemming at Highgate Gallery opening times:
Friday 14 November: 13.00 – 17.00
Saturday 15 & Sunday 16 November: 10.00 – 16.00
Wednesday 19 – Friday 21 November: 13.00 – 17.00
Saturday 22 & Sunday 23 November: 10.00 – 16.00
Wednesday 26 & Thursday 27 November: 13.00 – 17.00
Highgate Gallery in conjunction with The Wolf Collective is pleased to announce a solo exhibition by acclaimed British artist Adrian Hemming.
This exhibition brings together a significant body of work spanning Hemming’s decades-long career,
including oil paintings, prints, drawings, and watercolours.
Known for his meditative landscapes and luminous handling of colour, Hemming’s practice invites viewers
to reflect on how memory shapes perception—and how the land itself becomes a repository of both
personal and collective experience.
The Shape of Memory engages deeply with themes drawn from cultural history and philosophy.
Echoing Simon Schama’s Landscape and Memory, the exhibition explores landscape not merely
as a backdrop, but as a force through which identity, myth, and memory are forged. Hemming’s
work also resonates with both Nietzsche and Proust’s reflections on conscious remembering in the
body, where memory is not only stored in the mind but experienced viscerally—through rhythm,
sensation, and image.
As noted in the late Professor Denis Cosgrove’s essay on Hemming, his landscapes are “charged with the
geography of emotion,” operating between place and psyche. Hemming’s canvases often blur the boundary
between inner and outer worlds, rendering terrain that is at once real and remembered, abstract and intimate.
This exhibition offers a rare opportunity to engage with the full emotional and intellectual range of
Hemming’s work—a practice deeply rooted in the poetics of place and the subtle architectures of memory.
Adrian Hemming at Highgate Gallery opening times:
Friday 14 November: 13.00 – 17.00
Saturday 15 & Sunday 16 November: 10.00 – 16.00
Wednesday 19 – Friday 21 November: 13.00 – 17.00
Saturday 22 & Sunday 23 November: 10.00 – 16.00
Wednesday 26 & Thursday 27 November: 13.00 – 17.00
Highgate Gallery in conjunction with The Wolf Collective is pleased to announce a solo exhibition by acclaimed British artist Adrian Hemming.
This exhibition brings together a significant body of work spanning Hemming’s decades-long career,
including oil paintings, prints, drawings, and watercolours.
Known for his meditative landscapes and luminous handling of colour, Hemming’s practice invites viewers
to reflect on how memory shapes perception—and how the land itself becomes a repository of both
personal and collective experience.
The Shape of Memory engages deeply with themes drawn from cultural history and philosophy.
Echoing Simon Schama’s Landscape and Memory, the exhibition explores landscape not merely
as a backdrop, but as a force through which identity, myth, and memory are forged. Hemming’s
work also resonates with both Nietzsche and Proust’s reflections on conscious remembering in the
body, where memory is not only stored in the mind but experienced viscerally—through rhythm,
sensation, and image.
As noted in the late Professor Denis Cosgrove’s essay on Hemming, his landscapes are “charged with the
geography of emotion,” operating between place and psyche. Hemming’s canvases often blur the boundary
between inner and outer worlds, rendering terrain that is at once real and remembered, abstract and intimate.
This exhibition offers a rare opportunity to engage with the full emotional and intellectual range of
Hemming’s work—a practice deeply rooted in the poetics of place and the subtle architectures of memory.
Adrian Hemming at Highgate Gallery opening times:
Friday 14 November: 13.00 – 17.00
Saturday 15 & Sunday 16 November: 10.00 – 16.00
Wednesday 19 – Friday 21 November: 13.00 – 17.00
Saturday 22 & Sunday 23 November: 10.00 – 16.00
Wednesday 26 & Thursday 27 November: 13.00 – 17.00
Highgate Gallery in conjunction with The Wolf Collective is pleased to announce a solo exhibition by acclaimed British artist Adrian Hemming.
This exhibition brings together a significant body of work spanning Hemming’s decades-long career,
including oil paintings, prints, drawings, and watercolours.
Known for his meditative landscapes and luminous handling of colour, Hemming’s practice invites viewers
to reflect on how memory shapes perception—and how the land itself becomes a repository of both
personal and collective experience.
The Shape of Memory engages deeply with themes drawn from cultural history and philosophy.
Echoing Simon Schama’s Landscape and Memory, the exhibition explores landscape not merely
as a backdrop, but as a force through which identity, myth, and memory are forged. Hemming’s
work also resonates with both Nietzsche and Proust’s reflections on conscious remembering in the
body, where memory is not only stored in the mind but experienced viscerally—through rhythm,
sensation, and image.
As noted in the late Professor Denis Cosgrove’s essay on Hemming, his landscapes are “charged with the
geography of emotion,” operating between place and psyche. Hemming’s canvases often blur the boundary
between inner and outer worlds, rendering terrain that is at once real and remembered, abstract and intimate.
This exhibition offers a rare opportunity to engage with the full emotional and intellectual range of
Hemming’s work—a practice deeply rooted in the poetics of place and the subtle architectures of memory.
Adrian Hemming at Highgate Gallery opening times:
Friday 14 November: 13.00 – 17.00
Saturday 15 & Sunday 16 November: 10.00 – 16.00
Wednesday 19 – Friday 21 November: 13.00 – 17.00
Saturday 22 & Sunday 23 November: 10.00 – 16.00
Wednesday 26 & Thursday 27 November: 13.00 – 17.00
Highgate Gallery in conjunction with The Wolf Collective is pleased to announce a solo exhibition by acclaimed British artist Adrian Hemming.
This exhibition brings together a significant body of work spanning Hemming’s decades-long career,
including oil paintings, prints, drawings, and watercolours.
Known for his meditative landscapes and luminous handling of colour, Hemming’s practice invites viewers
to reflect on how memory shapes perception—and how the land itself becomes a repository of both
personal and collective experience.
The Shape of Memory engages deeply with themes drawn from cultural history and philosophy.
Echoing Simon Schama’s Landscape and Memory, the exhibition explores landscape not merely
as a backdrop, but as a force through which identity, myth, and memory are forged. Hemming’s
work also resonates with both Nietzsche and Proust’s reflections on conscious remembering in the
body, where memory is not only stored in the mind but experienced viscerally—through rhythm,
sensation, and image.
As noted in the late Professor Denis Cosgrove’s essay on Hemming, his landscapes are “charged with the
geography of emotion,” operating between place and psyche. Hemming’s canvases often blur the boundary
between inner and outer worlds, rendering terrain that is at once real and remembered, abstract and intimate.
This exhibition offers a rare opportunity to engage with the full emotional and intellectual range of
Hemming’s work—a practice deeply rooted in the poetics of place and the subtle architectures of memory.
Adrian Hemming at Highgate Gallery opening times:
Friday 14 November: 13.00 – 17.00
Saturday 15 & Sunday 16 November: 10.00 – 16.00
Wednesday 19 – Friday 21 November: 13.00 – 17.00
Saturday 22 & Sunday 23 November: 10.00 – 16.00
Wednesday 26 & Thursday 27 November: 13.00 – 17.00
Highgate Gallery in conjunction with The Wolf Collective is pleased to announce a solo exhibition by acclaimed British artist Adrian Hemming.
This exhibition brings together a significant body of work spanning Hemming’s decades-long career,
including oil paintings, prints, drawings, and watercolours.
Known for his meditative landscapes and luminous handling of colour, Hemming’s practice invites viewers
to reflect on how memory shapes perception—and how the land itself becomes a repository of both
personal and collective experience.
The Shape of Memory engages deeply with themes drawn from cultural history and philosophy.
Echoing Simon Schama’s Landscape and Memory, the exhibition explores landscape not merely
as a backdrop, but as a force through which identity, myth, and memory are forged. Hemming’s
work also resonates with both Nietzsche and Proust’s reflections on conscious remembering in the
body, where memory is not only stored in the mind but experienced viscerally—through rhythm,
sensation, and image.
As noted in the late Professor Denis Cosgrove’s essay on Hemming, his landscapes are “charged with the
geography of emotion,” operating between place and psyche. Hemming’s canvases often blur the boundary
between inner and outer worlds, rendering terrain that is at once real and remembered, abstract and intimate.
This exhibition offers a rare opportunity to engage with the full emotional and intellectual range of
Hemming’s work—a practice deeply rooted in the poetics of place and the subtle architectures of memory.
Adrian Hemming at Highgate Gallery opening times:
Friday 14 November: 13.00 – 17.00
Saturday 15 & Sunday 16 November: 10.00 – 16.00
Wednesday 19 – Friday 21 November: 13.00 – 17.00
Saturday 22 & Sunday 23 November: 10.00 – 16.00
Wednesday 26 & Thursday 27 November: 13.00 – 17.00