Gillian Lever

ART FIRST - ‘February’s Feast’

Thursday 2nd February - Friday 3rd March 2023

‘February’s Feast’  is an exhibition of work by a group of gallery artists - Kevin Laycock, Gillian Lever, Simon Lewty, Alex Lowery, Bridget Macdonald, Jack Milroy, Simon Morley, Donald Teskey, Mimei Thompson and Graeme Williams.

Gallery hours: Wednesday - Friday 11am - 6 pm, and by appointment.

ART FIRST, The Forge, 15 St Mary’s Walk, London, SE11 4UA

www.artfirst.co.uk

+44(0)7711945098

It is a joyful thing to be part of ‘February’s Feast’, ART FIRST’s new exhibition for 2023 bringing gallery artists together in the new Lambeth gallery space. The new space is well worth discovering - a few minutes walk from the ‘Imperial War Museum’ it is very easy to find. The exhibition will include recent oil paintings on canvas and board. 

Jake Lever

Seeing the hidden and the overlooked

‘Art does not reproduce what we see; rather it makes us see.’

Paul Klee

As an artist I have always loved looking closely at the natural world but since Christmas I have been looking even more closely with the help of a small magnifying glass. Inspired by Robin Wall Kimmerer, a botanist and also a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, I have been taking a magnifying glass out on walks. Robin is an expert in moss - a bryologist - she describes mosses as the ‘Coral reefs of the forest’,  a beautiful description.  Her writing in ‘Braiding Sweetgrass - Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants’  and ‘Gathering Moss - a Natural and Cultural History of Mosses’  is transformational. She is a champion for the magnifying glass and has a gift for opening up a sense of wonder and humility for the intelligence in life forms we can so easily dismiss.