RUBY BATEMAN
Working from her home studio in the South West countryside, Ruby creates paintings and
drawings steeped in a richly colourful and symbolic visual language. Interweaving
esoteric, Classical and Gothic motifs with ancestral origin stories and mythology, her
practice extends into fiction writing and the use of homemade, eco-conscious materials.
For Genesis, Ruby presents a mini-series charting birth and conception as a river journey -
beginning at the source, flowing into a river, and culminating at the mouth. Painted
entirely with locally foraged tree inks, the works embody an alchemical process through
which Ruby explores love and loss, maternal politics, grief held in the body, the
transformational power of plant medicine and the ego’s shifting relationship with nature.
BEATRICE HASELL-MCCOSH
Beatrice Hasell-McCosh uses natural form as a lens to explore emotional themes, identity
and human connection. Rooted in close observational drawing, her large-scale paintings
evolve in the studio through memory, abstraction and an intuitive play with scale. Central
to her current series is the idea of works presented in parts - a concept influenced by her
discovery of kintsugi in Japan in 2018, embracing beauty in imperfection and
fragmentation. Often working in diptychs and triptychs with deliberately uneven
elements, Beatrice reflects on multiplicity and wholeness, a sensibility perhaps informed
by her experience as a twin. Her influences range widely - from literature and politics to
pop culture, music, Disney set design, comic strips, 1950s advertising, Chagall’s stained
glass and the traditions of tapestry and wallpaper - creating layered compositions where
colour, texture and gesture take precedence over direct representation.
OLGA KARIKA
Ukrainian artist Olga Karika interrogates double standards and misinterpretations,
encouraging viewers to enter into dialogue with their inner selves. Inspired by notions of
“eternal beauty” - a concept both steadfast and concealing - her new linocut series
reflects on hope, renewal and the cyclical nature of life. Each work is hand-carved into
linoleum and individually printed, resulting in subtle variations that render every piece
unique. Through this meticulous, tactile process, Olga underscores the idea that new
beginnings are shaped by repetition and resilience, and that beauty often reveals itself
gradually through reflection.
REBECCA SAMMON
Rebecca Sammon is a British artist living and working in London. Educated at the
University of Brighton, Kansas City Art Institute and The Royal Drawing School, her bold
and poetic works pulse with vibrant immediacy. Rebecca’s paintings frequently draw on
abstracted elements of nature interacting with human forms in imagined landscapes,
shifting between mythical suggestion and ambiguous dreamscapes. In Genesis, her fluid
figures and daring colour combinations evoke altered states - worlds poised between
reality and reverie - where transformation becomes both narrative and atmosphere. Her
works are held in private collections globally and have been exhibited widely, including
recent presentations in London galleries and the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.
OLEKSANDRA MARTSON
Born in Ukraine in 1984 and is now based in London, figurative painter Oleksandra
Martson works primarily in oil on canvas, distinguished by clean, dramatic compositions
and refined graphic detail. Her ongoing Sleeping series, featured in Genesis, emerged
from sleepless nights in Kyiv during air-raid alarms, when exhaustion rendered sleep both
fragile and profoundly necessary. In these works, sleep becomes a metaphor for sanctuary
and inner equilibrium - a deeply human longing for peace amid uncertainty. Her practice
has been recognised through inclusion in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and
multiple long-listings for the Herbert Smith Freehills Portrait Award at the National Portrait
Gallery.
