Emiko Aida & Sarah Cox
20 January - 5 April

Slide Show

Emiko Aida is an acomplished painter and printmaker. The Weekend Gallery has shown her beautiful etchings on a regular basis, but this is our first exhibition of her paintings. She revisits many of the themes found in her printmaking - urban settings, water and rain, but in these canvases she allows the her firtation with the sureal to take filght. She was born in Jindajii, Tokyo, a town with a Japanese temple dedicated to the Water God. Water is worshipped there, and growing up, Emiko was surrounded by wetlands, streams and rivers. Living now in a London the watery world she has created in her etchings and paintings is a place where she feels at home. She finds water to be the element she most strongly connects to both spiritually and emotionally.

Sarah Cox is a well established ceramist. Her animals and birds have and appealing whimsy. They are resolved in form and surface and appear to have an irridiense in their colouring. Her inspiration is drawn from her love of the natural beauty of the earth. Her extensive travels diving amongst the world's most breathtaking waters can be seen in her inimitable style of creating sea anenomes and fish from the ocean, and her love of the flora and fauna of the world.