THE COLOURISTS
Vibrant, bold, and full of energy, this trail explores artists who use colour as their primary voice. From layered hues to striking contrasts, these works revel in the emotional power of pigment.
Booth 19
THEADORA BALLANTYNE-WAY | COCO DE SOLEIL, 2024
This work plays with the legend that is Coco de Mer, a rare palm seed native to the Seychelles. The seed’s evocative shape often likened to a woman’s hips and bottom and explored in Surrealists themes of mystery and transformation. Where reality bends and the extraordinary hides within the mundane.
For centuries, people believed that the Coco de Mer came from a mystical underwater tree, growing in the depths of the Indian Ocean. Since sailors often found the nuts floating on the waves or washed up on foreign shores without any knowledge of where they had come from it was widely assumed that they originated from a submerged paradise beneath the sea. According to legend, these hidden trees bore fruit in the abyss, their massive seeds only surfacing when they ripened.
Booth 9
Marie devaux | Tania, 2024
Marie’s mono screen-printing process is intuitive and deeply expressive. She works primarily by painting directly onto a blank screen, then transferring the image onto paper in a single, unique print.
For this piece, Marie focused on painting with complete freedom — without convention, subject, or premeditated idea — allowing colour, brushstrokes, and texture to take the lead. She revisits her recurring theme of flowers, rendered here through abstraction, where forms emerge subtly from the spontaneity of motion.
In Tania, she used foam brushes instead of paintbrushes, seeking to create spontaneous shapes and to encourage her hands to “lose” themselves in the movement. By combining both dry and wet paint, Marie achieved a balance within the composition — contrasting solid blocks of colour with fluid, layered areas that reveal the dynamic energy of her brushwork.
Booth 33
TERI WALSH | SKYSCAPE XXIII 1, 2024
Teri Walsh’s work investigates the intrinsic structure of things (natural and man-made) based on her own photographs. This screen monoprint was made from a photograph, taken at 16:58 on 26th January 2024 looking across the road from the artists house.
Skyscape XXIII 1 is a further experiment following on from Skyscape XXI where the pink is painted onto an open screen, and spread with a wet sponge. Then the blue background is pulled through. Gone is the analytical, logical approach to building up images using various types of positives. Instead there are often blended backgrounds followed by ink and paste applied by brush, sponge etc. onto an open screen and pulled through. This process is repeated until she believes the image is finished.
Booth 33
LEA LLOYD | CHROMATIC PLAY, 2025
Bold, colourful, and abstract, this work radiates energy while remaining deeply rooted in the repetitive patterns and rhythms found in nature—those quiet details observed during my daily walks. The process begins with a single shape, repeated again and again, echoing the forms of plants and natural structures. Through repetition, I explore variations in colour, transparency, and layering, allowing new forms and relationships to emerge and create complex patterns. The work becomes a meditation on observation and process revealing how simplicity can uncover endless complexity.
Booth 7
KRISTEN MCCLARTY | ABSTRACTED SOUP #1, 2024
Kristen McClarty ARE, South African specialist printmaker, works primarily in woodcut. Curated Hang includes three woodcuts from her series Head Under Water, relying on careful layering of colour and abstract shape to evoke movement and physical presence in water. Her woodcut Abstracted soup #1 presents the viewer with a zoomed in moment. A small element of body in water, discombobulated, split up into an abstracted soup of colour. In I can still breathe under water, the viewer steps back to see a hint of flesh, a splash. In these works, McClarty uses bold colour as her primary language, to provide just enough information to transport the viewer to that place.
Booth 1
HELOISE CHICOU | JARDIN COLONZELLE, 2024
Heloise Chicou is a Franco-English artist. Her vibrant monoprints explore themes of nature, the inner lives of women, and nostalgic recollections of a sun-drenched childhood in the South of France. Rooted in both observation and intuition, Chicou’s work translates the natural world and the complexity of internal landscapes into rich layers of colour and form. Blending traditional monoprint techniques with expressive, gestural brushwork, she creates pieces that pulse with rhythm, emotion, and texture. Through bold strokes and delicate detail, she offers a sensory bridge into her inner world—an invitation for viewers to reflect, remember, and feel.
Booth 33
LORENZO DAVITTI | COME ALIVE, 2025
This work is built from repeated vertical lines, placing the focus on colour, texture and rhythm rather than shape. Each line is printed one at a time, then interrupted with gestural ink splatters that bring a physical, unpredictable element to the composition, and give it almost a painterly look. The splashes break the ordered structure and ensure that every print is unique, even within a consistent edition.
The process used to create this print sits at the intersection between control and freedom and it explores how colours affect one another, drawing on ideas from Josef Albers and Bridget Riley, so tones can seem to vibrate or shift. Though fully abstract, the intention is for the colours to evoke personal memories or feelings in each viewer.
Booth 36
IRELAND 3000 | THE ELEVATION OF CHRIST, 2024
Ireland 3000’s work explores the profound influence of Christianity on our society while drawing parallels between religious devotion and the faith demanded by the creative process. By reworking iconic Catholic imagery from artists like Caravaggio, Rueben's, and Gentileschi through the medium of large-scale woodblock prints, he can confront the stereotypes of originality and the complexities of belief, both religious and creative. Ireland 3000 developed this body of work as a way to explore how Christianity has formed the foundation of our society, shaping our perceptions of morality, spirituality, and even aesthetics..
Booth 33
ALBA URQUIA |THE SHADOW OF MY SOUL IS MY BODY, 2025
Alba Urquia (Barcelona, 1997) graduated in MA Print from the Royal College of Art in 2023 and received her bachelor's from the University of the Arts London in 2019.
‘The Shadow of My Soul is My Body’ talks about the tangible and intangible and how both are needed to constitute a whole. Using dreamy colour-blends, a series of mirrored masks are introduced: some with a concrete feel to it, and their parallels, with a more ethereal look. In a similar way, printing from a 30kg lithographic stone also enables that dualism between something physical and something as delicate and subtle as the reticulations that appear when painting directly on the stone.
Booth 39
SIMGE GUCLU | LIVING ROOM, 2025
The Living Room is a rendition of the complex intimate relationships in a domestic space and the fragments that witness the lives of the multi-generational family. This edition of prints is made up of four stone lithographs in total, overlaid on top of each other in differing variations to produce 48 unique prints. The painstaking process of editioning and putting together these prints highlights the care that exists within the domestic space, yet the tears, layers, and contrasts split the whole and fragment the space: a labour of love. Through this piece the complex engagements between the print technique, care, time and fragment coalesce and find new meaning.
