Reflections
at King Edward VII's Hospital
curating art and wellbeing

We are pleased to introduce the fourteen works by ten artists who have been chosen for the second Exhibition at the King Edward VII's Hospital Medical Centre, the new outpatients department at King Edward VII's Hospital in Marylebone, from January 2023 for twelve months.

All the works are for sale, please contact us to enquire about any of these works or other available works by these artists.

Please see the Call for Artists webpage to see how these artists were chosen.

Gala Bell - Lilith, oil on canvas 150 x 180 cm - £5,090

Gala Bell is a London based multidisciplinary artist and graduate of the Royal College of Art and City and Guilds Art School.

The alchemy of matter is at the centre of her practice: Ignited by material experiences, art history fuses with divergent forms to explore new rituals in art making.

'Lilith' is a female figure in Mesopotamian mythology, alternatively the first wife of Adam and supposedly the primordial she-demon. Lilith is cited as having been banished from the Garden of Eden for not complying and obeying Adam; she is often depicted as a woman fighting for equality and striving for fairness.

Gala Bell - Dendera, oil on canvas 65 x 65 cm - £2,784

These paintings explore the boundaries between recognition and abstraction, transforming the recognisable into the unfamiliar, depicting metamorphic spaces that contain traces of an original subject.

Drawing is integral to the construction of these paintings, whose surfaces are worked over many times until a final image is revealed.

The Dendera Temple complex is located in the south-east of Dendera, Egypt. It is one of the best-preserved temple complexes in Egypt.

This work looks at the fragments of colour left on the interior frescoes of the temple of Hathor, allowing an abstraction to take over the original forms, describing the effect of dimmed light in the temple and the shifting of shapes that appear on the walls in semi-darkness.

Gareth Brown - Harbour Reflections II, oil on canvas 154 x 108 cm - £6,500

Gareth studied fine art at Exeter Art College, before working in conservation in the UK and Europe.

His work is inspired by a love for colour, texture and form, resulting in bold, representational images with qualities of abstraction.

He has exhibited in the UK, including the RA Summer Exhibition and is a member of the Royal Society of Marine Artists.

See below for details of the Harbour Reflection series.

Reflections at King Edward VII's Hospital curating art and wellbeing

Reflections
at King Edward VII's Hospital
curating art and wellbeing