Summer Exhibition: London

7 July - 6 September 2025
  • JD Malat Gallery London is thrilled to present its Summer Group Exhibition which brings together 33 works by 17 international artists. In tandem, these works all present different textures, from physical impasto, to reflective effects of light, and metaphorical hidden surfaces.
     
    The Summer Group Exhibition emphasises JD Malat Gallery's diverse range of artists, styles, mediums, and perspectives, spotlighting the bold contributions that contemporary artists are making to today’s visual culture. The Exhibition invites viewers to engage with the multifaceted concept of texture, encouraging a greater appreciation for the intricate layers of meaning and materiality in each piece, fostering a rich dialogue between artist, artwork, and observer.
     
  • Phoebe Leech Esprit Déteint painting
    Phoebe Leech, Esprit Déteint, 2025, Oil on linen, 84 1/4 x 63 in, 214 x 160 cm
     

    Phoebe Leech

    Phoebe Leech (b. 1999, Yorkshire) is a British figurative painter based between Oxford and London. Her large-scale portraits explore the human condition through vulnerable subjects, expressive gesture, and an unflinching attention to the body. Leech’s practice is defined by gestural mark-making that intertwines identity, psychological tension, and emotional intensity. In her final year at City & Guilds of London Art School, she developed her work in dialogue with artists such as Justin Mortimer and Jonathan Williams.
     
  • Nikolai Makarov, Two Graces painting
    Nikolai Makarov, Two Graces, 2016, Acrylic on canvas, 63 x 51 1/8 in, 160 x 130 cm

    Nikolai Makarov

    Nikolai Makarov (b. 1952, Moscow) paintings are suffused with mystery and stillness. Makarov moved with his family to East Berlin in the 1970s, studying history at Humboldt University before pursuing art at the Academy of Arts in East Germany. Originally self taught, Makarov, under the influence of Austrian painter Rudolf Hausner, shifted his practice towards acrylics. Now living and working in Berlin, Makarov has become known for his depictions of nudes, ballerinas, and atmospheric landscapes, surrounded by a diffused, luminous blur.
     
    Trained in the traditions of European Old Masters, Makarov has innovated his own elaborate process with acrylic paint and airbrush techniques. Beginning each canvas with monochromatic underpainting, Makarov’s layering of water-diluted acrylic allows him to create translucent and blurry veils of colour, creating a soft, smoky sfumato effect. 
     
  • Ed Moses (1926 - 2018) painting Red over Black
    Ed Moses, Red over Black, 2012, Mixed media on canvas, 60 x 48 in, 152.4 x 121.9 cm

    Ed Moses

    Ed Moses (1926 - 2018, LA) was a pivotal figure in post-war West Coast abstraction, known for his restless experimentation with materials, processes, and form. From monochromes and diagonal grids to gestural, saturated fields, his evolving practice embodied a continuous investigation into the language of painting.Calling himself a “mutator,” Moses was drawn to transitional states—whether in nature, thought, or materials. His work was informed by Buddhist philosophy, the open expanse of his Venice studio, and his daily, almost ritualistic engagement with painting. Yenoh spelt 'Honey' backwards highlights his fascination with the mutability of concepts and transitional spaces, where in nature, thought, or materials. Calling himself a 'mutator' Moses would use tools such as mops, rubber scrapers and hoses such as in Yenoh to challenge conventional technique and embrace intuition and chance to allow the paint to organically form.
     
  • Andy Moses
    Andy Moses, Geodynamics 1704, 2020, Acrylic on canvas over hexagonal wood panel, 78 x 67 in, 198.1 x 170.2 cm

    Andy Moses

    Andy Moses (1962, LA) creates dynamic abstract works that explore the interplay of colour, light, and surface. His practice is rooted in process-based experimentation, drawing on the physical behaviour of paint to evoke natural and optical phenomena. Moses 'Liquid Landscapes' are created by manipulating paints mixed with metallic pigments and industrial coatings, applied to curved or shaped panels. He uses gravity, flow, and centrifugal force to guide the paint, producing compositions that recall geological strata, ocean currents, lava flows, cloud formations, or planetary surfaces. These works respond to light and movement, shifting visually as the viewer moves, merging painting, sculpture, and perceptual experience into a single immersive surface.
  • Francesca Leone Arch. 524, 2025 Oil on copper sheet 35 cm x 45 cm (diameter)
    Francesca Leone, Arch. 524, 2025, Oil on copper sheet, 35 cm x 45 cm (diameter)

    Francesca Leone

    Francesca Leone (b. 1964, Italy) is an Italian painter and sculptor based in Rome. Born in a family of artists and the child of filmmaker Sergio Leone, Leone studied under Professor Lino Tardia. Best known for her multimedia sculptures and artworks, Leone’s practice revolves around repurposing items such as reclaimed metal sheets, reinforced concrete, and waste items such as bus tickets and cigarette stubs into sculptures that express themes of memory, time, transformation, and sustainability.
     
    Leone’s works suggest a new relationship with materials including metal and concrete that is no longer extractive, but restorative. These works invite the viewer to contemplate the damage done to these materials, and how Leone has restored them to recreate natural forms such as flowers, the sky, and caves. In 2022, Leone held a solo exhibition, “Take Your Time” as a collateral event to the 59th Venice Biennale. The installation encouraged viewers to move in a space suspended between between earthly and cosmic dimensions. Leone’s recent series of roses are made in different sizes using metal sheets found in abandoned construction sites or buildings. Unfolding in different layers, Leone reveals the lacerations and rust of the materials, as if they were signs of aging in the flowers themselves.
  • Luis Olaso painting composition with jug and flowers
    Luis Olaso, Composition for sunflowers and jug, 2023, Oil, acrylic, oil bar and oil pastel on canvas, 78 3/4 x 63 in, 200 x 160 cm

    Luis Olaso

    Luis Olaso (b.1986, Spain) is a abstract artist currently living and working in Bilbao, Spain. Initially self-taught Luis went on to study Fine Arts at the University of the Basque Country where he developed his personal artistic style. Often working on large canvases Luis’ abstract paintings are influenced by his emotions and personal views. His artistic practice is divided into two parts: action and analysis. Working from improvisation Luis paints impulsively, creating shapes, spots, and colour planes. Once his initial impulses have been made Luis takes a step back from his work and observes it. Often analysing his compositions for hours, he discerns what does and doesn’t work. The combination of both impulsive energy and quiet contemplation allows him to reach his internal feelings more effectively producing fresh and visceral works.
     
  • Light Glyph 6
    Casper Brindle, Light Glyph 6, 2021, Plexiglas, pigmented acrylics, 74 x 44 in, 188 x 112 x 20.5 cm

    Casper Brindle

    Casper Brindle (born in 1968, Toronto) is renowned for his profound focus on optical effects and the austerity of its formal language. His work explores the expressive possibilities of colour, light, and form. His experiences surfing along the Los Angeles coastline and his formative years as an apprentice to pioneering Light and Space artist Eric Orr in his early twenties have profoundly shaped his practice. As a second-generation Light and Space artist, Brindle's work features minimalist compositions enhanced by luminous, disembodied colours and machine-tooled surfaces.

     
  • Conrad Jon Godly Renaissance#43
    Conrad Jon Godly, RENAISSANCE#43 , 2024, Acrylic on canvas, 70 7/8 x 90 1/2 in, 180 x 230 cm

    Conrad Jon Godly

    Conrad Jon Godly (b. 1962, Switzerland) addresses the symbiotic relationship between human nature and the sublime; finding beauty in the awe and terror of nature. Godly's paintings are a reminder of the futility of human existence, whose blunt expression of natural forms are an exercise in capturing the intricacies of the dramatic. Godly's works often incorporate heavy impasto canvases to capture the essence of nature, inspired to produce works of energy and hope, reflecting the semiotic richness of his surrounding environment.
     
  • William Martyr, let's go swimming
    William Martyr, Let's go Swimming, 2025, Acrylic on canvas, 59 in (diameter), 150 cm (diameter)

    William Martyr

    William Martyr's (b.1980, UK) paintings explore experiences of travel, relaxation and time spent with loved ones. His works incorporate recognisable symbols of leisure, such as clear skies, swimming pools, and paradisiac landscapes.Void of figurative representation, his compositions evoke a sense of stillness and familiarity , allowing the viewers to immerse fully in the imagined worlds of resorts and summer residencies Situated in deliberately obscure places without pre-attached narratives, Martyr’s works become timeless, inviting the viewer to transport their own memories within the painting. Martyr’s meticulous stencil-like layering of paint with a high degree of detail enhances its visual impact, deepening the emotional resonance of the works - blending the real with the imagined. Calm and vibrant, these scenes are soaked with fresh, saturated colours and patterns; paired with an ever present sun, they harbour inner feelings of joy and excitement.
  • Henrik Uldalen, Swept
    Henrik Uldalen, Swept, 2022, Oil on linen, 70 7/8 x 118 1/8 in, 180 x 300 cm
     
     

    Henrik Uldalen

    Henrik Aa. Uldalen (b. 1986, South Korea) was raised in Norway and spent time in Barcelona, Florence and Mexico City, before moving to England in 2015. Henrik is a self-taught, expressionist artist, whose creative production revolves around classic figurative painting. Developed for over 12 years, his technique is placed together with abstract impasto, presented in a contemporary manner. Henrik examines the dark side of life, nihilism, existentialism, longing and loneliness, juxtaposed with fragile beauty.
     
  • Santiago Parra Untitled
    Santiago Parra, Untitled, 2023, Acrylic on canvas, 66 7/8 x 86 1/4 in, 170 x 219 cm
    Framed: 68 1/2 x 87 3/4 in, 174 x 223 cm

    Santiago Parra

    Santiago Parra (b. 1986, Colombia) is known for his large, abstract and highly expressive black and white paintings. His canvases capture the suspended flatness of the calligraphy-like imagery, harmonising two seemingly incompatible aesthetic moments, spontaneity and pondering, which are all shaped by movement, strength, gravity and skill of the Columbian artist’s creative process. He explores the expressive possibilities of the quintessential abstract form. With an audacious manner he redefines abstract structures with bold sculptural brushstrokes. His work is both an aesthetic exploration and a questioning of the essence of abstract image making.
  • Darren Reid Headland
    Darren Reid, Headland , 2025, Acrylic on panel, 51 1/8 x 31 1/2 in, 130 x 80 cm

    Darren Reid

    Darren Reid (b. 1971, Derby) is a self-taught artist specialising in realist painting. Drawing scenes by hand, Reid's emerging style and technical rigour has been influenced by artists such as Caravaggio and Holbein, alongside 20th Century painters such as Edward Hopper and Andrew Wyeth. Executing his paintings in acrylic, Reid works with an intricate craftsmanship through fine brushwork. Reid credits his attraction to realist landscapes for their potential to render a scene “so perfectly in paint” and the style’s documentary value. His allure to the narrative quality of realism is encapsulated by his choice in subject matter which largely references his local environment. In 2014, Reid was shortlisted for the John Ruskin Prize. Since then, the artist has continued to thrive on the art scene and toured with the V&A's 2014 Recording Britain exhibition.
     
  • Katia Fridriks, Cosmic tree of life
    Katrin Fridriks, Cosmic Tree of Life, 2021, Acrylics on canvas, 31 1/2 x 31 1/2 x 2 in, 80 x 80 x 5 cm

    Katrin Fridriks

    Katrin Fridriks (b. 1974, Iceland) is an abstract expressionist painter who examines questions about new technologies and polemical scientific research of the contemporary age. The artist explores forces that mould our society and raises controversial and political themes through her pieces. Her artistic process looks at stimulating our memory and consciousness. Her Icelandic roots have aroused a curiosity primarily in the four elements – air, fire, earth and water. These elements are powerfully displayed in her native country by volcanoes, geysers and glaciers, and these have shaped her way to comprehend nature and life.
  • Masayoshi Nojo, Untitled , 2019
    Masayoshi Nojo, Untitled, 2019, Cotton on panel, acrylic, silver foil, aluminium foil, 31 1/2 x 23 7/8 in, 80 x 60.5 cm

    Masayoshi Nojo

    Masayoshi Nojo (b. 1989, Japan) combines contemporary visual languages with Japanese aesthetics, exploring the themes of memory and the passage of time. Rooted in Japanese art history, Nojo’s use of silver is particularly reminiscent of Ogata Kōrin’s celebrated work during the Edo Period in seventeenth-century Japan. Kōrin’s marbled silver rivers, often painted upon byōbu folding screens, were symbolic of time’s flow due to the changing colour of the metal through oxidisation. This depiction of time has become a cornerstone of a form of Japanese art known today as Rinpa. With his most recent series, entitled Mirage, Nojo uses this sense of time to conjure a sense of deja-vu in the viewer, evoking a memory tantalisingly close, yet just out of reach.
     
  • Sepand Danesh painting
    Sepand Danesh, Funambule , 2025, Acrylic paint on linen, 74 3/4 x 47 1/4 in, 190 x 120 cm

    Sepand Danesh

    Sepand Danesh (b. 1984, Tehran) is an Iranian contemporary artist based in Paris who explores identity, transformation, and the paradoxes of contemporary existence in our hyperconnected age. Employing Euclidean geometry, Danesh creates large scale compositions through painted cube shapes that generate pixelated forms, referencing our digital landscape whilst interrogating the psychological territories of displacement and belonging. Danesh's practice explores 'the dynamic of the Hub', examining how ideas burst forth and circulate in our interconnected world.
  • Han Ji Min The Person Who Turned his Back, 2025 Oil on canvas 46 x 28 5/8 in 116.8 x 72.7 cm
    Han Ji Min, The Person Who Turned his Back, 2025 Oil on canvas 46 x 28 5/8 in 116.8 x 72.7 cm

    Han Ji Min

    Han Ji Min (b. 1978 Jeollabuk-do) is a contemporary artist based in Seoul, Korea recognised for her distinctly soft-edged compositions of figures in serene and peaceful environments. Han's oil paintings quietly navigate the cultural terrain of contemporary Seoul and question how we locate notions of identity and human sentiment within the human body and its surroundings. "Backs don't lie" - Han Ji Min finds a person's true feelings in their backs when the masks of everyday life disappear and inner tension is released. The artist pays attention to the stories told by backs, as well as other parts of the body such as the movement of fingertips, in a journey to find the 'true self'.
     
  • Richard Hudson
    Richard Hudson, Crab, 2020, Polished Mirrored Steel, 19 3/4 x 28 3/8 x 19 1/4 in, 50 x 72 x 49 cm

    Richard Hudson

    Richard Hudson (b. 1954, UK) is a British sculptor celebrated for his smooth, curvilinear forms that reflect the influence of modernist figures such as Henry Moore and Jean Arp. Working in polished bronze, marble, and stainless steel, his work often explores the female form and abstract notions of beauty. His sculptures have been exhibited internationally in cities including London, New York, and Dubai, and are held in notable collections such as the Fondation Carmignac, the House of Alba Collection, the Loewe Foundation, and The Donum Estate in California.