Assia Bennani is a Moroccan contemporary painter and designer based in London.
Her semi-figurative paintings, out of time and space are a celebration of diversity. She sees her art journey as a fruitful world where cultures, traditions and innovations happily find each other.
In a world that tends to be more and more polarised, she likes to create visual bridges between different realities, cultures and time frames. Assia grew up in Casablanca and spent the last 20 years between Paris, Hong Kong and London where she lives today.
Each of those places has left a mark on her identity; through painting, she explores how these different influences can gracefully blend together, just like they gently flow within herself.
She uses acrylic primarily paint but enjoys other mediums like ink, gouache or oil paint. Her paintings are an invitation to slow down and in her more recent series “Reclaim Dreaming”, she invites us to question the place left to dreams and imagination in our modern lives.
Sara Hoque is a local mixed-media artist currently living on a narrow boat in East London.
Sara Hoque's work explores the majesty of the natural world and the uncertainty of its future. By using acrylic paint and collaged images she creates visually appealing compositions with loose, abstract narratives.
By using acrylic paint and collaged images, Sara’s work explores the sublime wonder we experience in nature. Through her practice she aims to untangle the complexity that can only be described as ‘awe’, an emotion which can be both pleasurable or imbued with mystery and uncertainty. Driven by her curiosity around the natural world, her purpose is to capture the spirit of nature through her ephemeral landscapes.
