West, London
James Owens
Quiet Fire
Arusha GalleryExtended Hours: Thursday, October 14, 10am to 9pm Arusha Gallery is delighted to present Quiet Fire, a new body of work by James Owens. The show features 25 works in warm earthy hues and rich teals, blues and purples. In these paintings, plants creep, dance and communicate in hushed tones. They grow in unlikely settings, pushing up through cracks and stretching towards the sun. This world captures nature in its full capacity - toying in flux between splendid growth and brutal death. As a small flower tenderly blossoms, another wilts. A curling tendril soon becomes a parasite. The paintings tread gently upon this balance between strength and weakness, hope and doom. Based in London, Owens studied Illustration at Camberwell of College of Art and was shortlisted for the 2018 Evening Standard Prize. Arusha Gallery is a contemporary art gallery with its main premises in Edinburgh's historic New Town. Opening in 2013, Arusha runs an annual programme of exhibitions, events and fairs, both nationally and internationally, with regular collaborations with guest artists, curators, festivals and institutions.