Arusha Gallery

One week left to catch John Abell’s Cariadon Y Mynydd (The Mountain Lover)

The Mountain Lovers is a new series of paintings by .abell, drawing on his strong connection to the landscape and mountains of his home, as well as the Welsh language and its traditions of storytelling and religious devotion.

For enquiries please email [email protected]

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The Mountain Lovers is a new body of paintings by John Abell (.abell). It is informed by a deep connection with the landscape and mountains of his home, the welsh language, and traditions of storytelling and religious devotion.

Created over the course of a year, these paintings are profoundly tied to spiritual devotion, with the mountain serving as a mother, lover, friend, and comforter. As an avid hiker, John dedicates much of his time to walking through the landscape. This is reflected in these new works, veering towards an abstract expressionist way of understanding its beauty and the connectedness of the nature, the body, and the soul that it carries.

The titles are all in Welsh, the language John uses in his day to day life. Like many languages, is intricately tied to the landscape of its origins. It was important to John to emphasise the rich poetry of the Welsh language and its profound connection to the land, and to elevate it within his work.

John Abell (1986, Cardiff, Wales) lives and works in Pontypridd, Wales.

The exhibition continues until 29th March 2025 at 6 Percy Street, W1T 1DQ London: Monday to Saturday 11am—6pm.

For enquiries please email [email protected]

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OPENING TOMORROW 13th March

Join us for the opening of John Abell’s Cariadon Y Mynydd: The Mountain Lovers with .stone.club and a conversation about art, folklore and magic.

13th March 2025
6 Percy Street, W1T 1DQ London
6–8pm

exhibition continues: 14th - 29th March 2025

The Mountain Lovers is a new body of paintings by John Abell. It’s informed by a deep connection with the landscape and mountains of his home, the welsh language, and traditions of storytelling and religious devotion.

Created over the course of a year, these paintings are profoundly tied to spiritual devotion, with the mountain serving as a mother, lover, friend, and comforter. As an avid hiker, John dedicates much of his time to walking through the landscape. This is reflected in these new works, veering towards an abstract expressionist way of understanding its beauty and the connectedness of the nature, the body, and the soul that it carries.

The titles are all in Welsh, the language John uses in his day to day life. Like many languages, is intricately tied to the landscape of its origins. It was important to John to emphasise the rich poetry of the Welsh language and its profound connection to the land, and to elevate it within his work.

John Abell (1986, Cardiff, Wales) lives and works in Pontypridd, Wales.
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As part of John Abell’s opening at Arusha Gallery, .stone.club and .abell will be in conversation about art, folklore, and magic.

Join us on Thursday, 13th March, 6–8pm for an evening of discussion, music, and a chance to see John’s latest work, Cariadon Y Mynydd: The Mountain Lovers.

No booking needed—Everyone welcome!

Opening soon:

John Abell—Cariadon Y Mynydd (The Mountain Lovers)

Join us for the opening:
13th March 2025
6–8pm
6 Percy Street
W1T 1DQ

The exhibition continues until 29th March 2025

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Ynys Cariadon, 2024
Oil on canvas
180 x 180 cm

Dan Y Coeden Ywen, 2025
Oil on canvas
170 x 140 cm

Cosmoleg Y Dyffryn, 2025
Oil on linen
170 x 140 cm

For enquiries please email [email protected]

Play-Time continues until 8th March 2025

Our gallery openings for next week are:
Wednesday to Saturday 11am—6pm
6 Percy Street, W1T 1DQ London

explores how childhood play shapes who we become. Using nostalgic objects, she builds intricate tabletop scenes that blend personal memories with universal experiences. Light, shadow, and storytelling bring a sense of theatre—capturing both the wonder and unease of growing up.

For inquiries please email [email protected]

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John Abell: Cariadon Y Mynydd (The Mountain Lovers)

Join us for the opening of John Abell’s latest exhibition on Thursday, 13th March 2025, from 6–8pm at 6 Percy Street, London, W1T 1DQ. The exhibition will run from 14th to 29th March.

Everyone welcome!

John Abell’s (.abell) paintings sit somewhere between folklore and fever dream—dense, luminous scenes where familiar figures take on an otherworldly charge. Lovers, ghosts, riders, and watchers move through layered landscapes, and each piece feels like glimpse into a much bigger story.

In Cariadon Y Mynydd (The Mountain Lovers), .abell and .stone.club bring together new work that plays with scale, perspective, and the weight of myth. Blues and violets glow against firelit golds and compositions unfold like medieval woodcuts.

Born in 1968, John Abell studied at Camberwell College of Art in London, and is currently based in wales. He is known for his vibrant watercolours that explore life and the human experience.

Email [email protected] to register interest.

John Abell (b. 1986) studied at Camberwell College of Art; he is currently based in Wales.

John is particularly known for his large-scale wood block prints and highly coloured watercolour paintings which explore life, love, lust and the human condition. The work is charged with a sense of fear and death, pessimism or even nihilism along with a large pinch of gallows humour. His aim is to represent human feeling, the world and himself as honestly as he can.
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Artworks:

Music of Love and Hunger, 2021
Drypoint and watercolour
50 x 44 cm

Music of Love and Hunger, 2021
Drypoint and watercolour
50 x 44 cm

Into the Waves (Blue), 2021
Drypoint and watercolour
45 x 39 cm

A New Eden, 2021
Drypoint and watercolour
65 x 53 cm

The Witches Fire, 2021
Drypoint and watercolour
50 x 44 cm

Tables Turned, 2021
Drypoint and watercolour
50 x 44 cm

For inquires please email [email protected]

Georgina Clapham (b.1993, UK) is a painter and printmaker currently based in Los Angeles.
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Through oil painting and printmaking Clapham engages with storytelling, depicting the body and its accoutrements, with a focus on female sexuality and the psyche.

Clapham’s paintings are an extension of the worlds she inhabits, growing up in Dorset, UK and her current home of Los Angeles, USA. Engaging colour as an immersive, symbolic and emotive force, she conjures synthetic hyper-realities that transport the viewer beyond time to an imaginary realm of possibility.

Artworks:

Bluebell Fairy, 2024
Oil on linen
105 x 80 cm

Foxglove, 2024
Oil on linen
40 x 30 cm

Female Gaze, 2023
Oil on linen
80 x 60 cm

The Wicked Witch of the Western, 2023
Oil on linen
102 x 72 cm

To enquire please email [email protected] or visit us at 6 Percy Street, London from Monday to Saturday 11am—6pm.

OPENING TODAY: MORWENNA MORRISON

Join us for the opening of solo show Play-Time!

13th February 2025
6 Percy Street
W1T 1DQ London
6–8pm

All welcome!

Play-Time reflects on the way childhood imagination shapes who we become. Through nostalgic objects, Morrison explores memory, creativity, and the fleeting magic of play. At the centre of this work is the act of play itself—a tool for making sense of the world as children.

For inquires please email [email protected]

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Morwenna Morrison: Play-Time

Join us for the opening of Play-Time, on Thursday 13th February at 6 Percy Street, London from 6–8pm.

Play-Time rewinds to childhood, the space where imagination is formed. As children, we make sense of the world through repetition, play, and storytelling.

Morrison’s paintings follow a similar rhythm—beginning with familiar objects placed in conversation with each other, then developing through a playful, instinctive
process that unearths deeper connections to the past.

Morwenna Morrison is based in Penzance. A graduate of the Exeter College of Art and Design’s Fine Art programme (1988), she has exhibited extensively across the UK in both solo and group shows.

The exhibition continues until 8th March 2025

For inquiries please email [email protected]

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Xanthe Burdett (b. 1995)

Xanthe () is an artist from Devon living and working in London. Her practice is led by painting but also encompasses drawing and installation. She graduated from MA Painting at the Royal College of Art in 2024, and received her BA in Education, English and Drama at Cambridge University.

‘My work is concerned with the body in nature and the question of the body as nature. Through a personal mythology deeply rooted in place I am entangling bodies and stories into layered works where the line between the human and non-human wavers and stretches. The works, moving between extreme scales, push and pull as strange creatures rise to the surface through the layers of
glazing.

I think of my practice as a mesh, my paintings existing within a web extending outwards. One thread to the monumental hunting tapestries in the V&A, another to the way light dances across the fallen tree on the riverbank I grew up on. Paintings from museums, the way I felt when I first saw Anna Mendieta’s photographs after I heard the story of her death, the long cool shadows in the
woods.’

Artworks:

Squabble, 2024
Oil on board
17.8 x 12.7 cm

Dew Catcher, 2024
Oil on board
17.8 x 12.7 cm

Stay Here and Grow Hot with Waiting, 2024
Oil on board
17.8 x 12.7 cm

For inquiries please email [email protected] or visit the gallery at 6 Percy Street, W1T 1DQ London:
Mon—Sat 11–6pm

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