Colour, Tristan Hoare Gallery

Everyone should visit this gallery once. Sitting in quiet grandeur on Fitzroy Square, you feel like you're walking through a Sisley painting as you reach the front door.

Over the years, Tristan has built a golden reputation for organising and curating immaculate exhibitions. The space itself also helps. Elegant and initimate with high ceilings, the works exhibited, are spread across two wooden floored, sunlit galleries, no doubt used as a high society living room and dining room in days gone by.

Colour, co-curated by Flora Hesketh and Omar Mazhar, is another excellent exhibition.

Bringing together international artists displaying a range of techniques from weaving, dripping to painting, there are a few house hold names who also appear, Elsworth Kelly, Anish Kapoor, Bridget Riley, Howard Hodgkin, but they don't dominate, they compliment their fellow artists well. Naturally, colour forms the narrative and a few artists stood out for me.

Ptolemy Mann, Lubna Chowdhary, Markus Amm in the main gallery exhibit three beautiful pieces. Lubna's two ceramic wall sculptures float beautifully, Markus's half melting, sexy and subtle paintings hold the wall well, and Ptolemy's woven works are chic, obsessively made, and her sharp use of colour keeps your eyes hooked.

The intimacy of the gallery allows for great dialogues between the works, inviting the viewer to really feel like they are part of the exhibition. Leila Bartell's two small Poussin like skyscapes hang next to a Peter Schlesinger vase and a bit further on a couple of stunning Alev Ebuzziya Siesbye pots sit happily between a Ptolemy and Julia Polidoro. The opposite wall, a salon style hang, is filled with treasures, I'll let you discover those.

Here's a free tip, go on a beautiful spring / summer day, and see the light shine through the french windows onto the art works, it adds to this glorious gallery experience.

On until 29th March, Tristan Hoare Gallery.

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