Botanica Vita II

Opening this December, Botanica Vita II assembles nine artists who return, again and again, to the natural world — to the flowers, branches and unruly greens that anchor their sense of place. For each, the botanical is less a subject than a lens: a way of noticing, of keeping time, of understanding how the living world impresses itself on the mind.

Several familiar voices reappear here — India Mark, Louise Anders, Angie de Latour, Susan Morris, Miranda Summers, Nadja Kabriel and Baden Croft — their works forming a kind of ongoing conversation across years and exhibitions. They are joined, for the first time, by Allie Webb and Alice Laura Palmer, whose paintings bring a fresh tempo to the still-life tradition, alert to subtle shifts in colour, light and structure.

Across the collection, the works share an understanding that the botanical is never static. Light shifts, colour gathers and recedes, compositions tighten and loosen. A single stem can hold a surprising amount of intent; a vase can become an anchor point for an entire scene.

Botanica Vita II asks viewers to consider why these forms endure — why flowers, branches and arranged objects continue to offer artists a way into deeper observation.