The show brings together prints by Janie George, oil paintings by Bruno Grad and watercolours from Lucy Spanyol. Each artist brings a unique voice and visual language, engaging in a dialogue that floats between temporality and materiality.

Janie George works across printmaking, painting and ceramics. Her work is an intuitive response to the blending of the natural world with human experience. Plants and their lives, their relationship with pollinators, photosynthesis and mineral growth are woven into the visual narrative. The patterning of insects, shells and rock are considered within the layered and imagined space of an image. Colour is important as it sets an emotional temperature. Selected palettes create a sensory climate for the motifs to settle into. Form is developed from ideas about generative processes and set in a moving space of water and air.

Bruno Grad, a new artist with Frank, has a practice that explores painting as a mode of intensified attention, drawing on questions of perception, temporality, and the relationship between material form and transcendence. Working through recursive processes of layering, glazing, repetition, and gesture, Bruno’s paintings investigate how aesthetic experience can function as a site of presence and encounter. Informed by Jewish mystical thought and contemporary debates surrounding representation and the image, his work moves between abstraction and symbolic structure to explore painting as a participatory and contemplative act. The paintings are built through slow accretions of glazing, rubbing, staining, and layered gestures. The works emerge through processes of attention that are deliberately tactile and recursive.

Lucy Spanyol is a painter whose work explores fragile and nebulous visual narratives that offer an often darkly humorous vision of our world.
Figuration and abstraction exist in the same arena: forms and figures arrive in these paintings and drawings through a combination of the process of making and the memory of personal and collective events. For Lucy, the process of making images is fundamentally an arena in which to explore unknown inner worlds and a place to push at the boundaries of both materials and visual storytelling.

The show continues until 27th July.

All works in the show are available to purchase online, see links above, and from the gallery. Email us for details of any works in the show.