Soft

City Quay, Isle of Wight, 2025

Through a slow process of painting and drawing, information is removed as often as it is revealed. Bodies emerge and dissolve. 

In this exhibition, new multi-panel paintings experiment with separating the canvas, interrupting bodies and forms that might otherwise remain whole.

Thin washes, soft colour and erasure bring a gentleness to images that may hold something difficult or unresolved. They offer another way of approaching it, one in which vulnerability, care and uncertainty can occupy the same space.

At a moment when so much competes for our attention, Wilson makes slow works that ask for quietness, attention and time. 

Can we remain with an image before deciding what it means?

Can we remain with one another in the same?

Exhibition text by Samantha Wilson, 2026.