10 contemporary artists respond to the theme ‘The Shape of Time’ in this group show of abstract work curated by Aimie Herbert
Dates: Friday 20th February – Tuesday 17th March 2026
Location: The Framing Gallery at Green & Stone, 122 Fulham Road, South Kensington, London SW3 6HU
Opening Hours: 10.00 – 18.00 (Tuesday - Saturday)
AIMIE HERBERT
My name is Aimie Herbert and I am a painter/producer living in London. After receiving my BFA from the University of Brighton, I participated in two artist residency programs: Organhaus ArtSpace, Chongqing, China and Konstepidemin, Gothenburg, Sweden. My painting explores the strength and permanency of the world’s physical features through shape, structure, and interior space.
Rather than depicting specific landscapes, my painting focuses on the underlying forms that give the environment its sense of endurance planes, contours, and spatial relationships that feel both grounded and timeless.
DAVID AUBORN
David Auborn (b. 1990, Kent) lives and works in London. He holds an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art. Selected exhitions include ‘HAECEITICA’ (2024) at Oceans Apart, Manchester, ‘Eyrie’ (2020) at CARDRDE in Bologna Italy, 'TTTM' (2019) and 'Distant Matter' (2017), both at Pierre Poumet, Bordeaux, France. His work was recently included in Issue 23 of Turps Magazine.
Following discourses in both drawing and painting, I test, uncover, play out and decipher each work's unique interior logics across time. The works have been realised once they have achieved their own autonomy, my role as investigator becomes incidental, and carry an energy that in some way relates to lived experience.
HELEN IRELAND
BA Fine Art Painting, CentralSt Martin’s School of Art
MA Fine Art, Chelsea School of Art
Drawing Fellow at Winchester School of Art
Recent Solo shows: 155a Gallery ‘Mapping Spaces’, Ubicua Gallery ‘Spaces of Rhythm’
Participated in Artists workshops in Namibia, Georgia, and the Netherlands
Collections include British Land, FORTE, Arthur Andersen, and British Airways.
Helen speaks of trying to create a ‘logo of a memory’ turning an impression into a formal composition. In reworking the paintings inevitably change will occur and marks fade in and out. Helen is interested in colour and light and fleeting moments, like the coolness of a pink London Sky, the visual shift between light and dark or a warm pink to a grey green.
LEE KNOTT
Born in Torquay, South Devon, I initially forged a successful career in music, touring extensively and working for acts such as Underworld and trip-hop pioneers Tricky and Portishead, whilst having my music used in film and television productions. I then went on to receive an FDA with distinction in fine art from Plymouth University and a BA Hons in fine art from London Metropolitan in 2014.
My abstract paintings are essentially imaginary landscapes that involve stripping back the idea of landscape painting to its simplest form, incorporating a love of the minimalist aesthetic while maintaining an authentic connection to the process of making the work. Using layers of paint and instinctual moment-to-moment decision making to create an ambient quality that evokes time and movement.
LLOYD DURLING
Lloyd Durling is a British artist working in London. His practice is painting-based and he is a recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant. He has exhibited widely throughout Europe, Asia and U.S.A. Solo exhibitions include among others: Pippy Houldsworth, London; Golden, Chicago; Pflueger68, Berlin and CICA, South Korea.
Ideas around topography are of central importance to Durling’s practice and are explored through continuing walking projects. These serve as opportunities to gather diverse source material through physical and emotional interactions with whichever environment chosen to traverse. It amounts to a kind of urban or rural wandering where the information gathered is reinterpreted or reimagined.
OLIVER GOSLING
Oliver Gosling: Royal College of Art 1982-85. Exhibiting in London, Milan, Brussels, Paris. Lived in Japan for two years, exhibiting in Tokyo with Gallery MMG; lived in China for eight years, represented by Jinse Gallery, exhibiting in Chongqing, Shanghai, Hang Zhou, Zhu Hai and Beijing. Currently represented by Fanxidelarue Gallery, now operating in Dubai. Senior lecturer University of Brighton.
Space is the emotional anchor in my paintings; vast, neutral, imagined spaces. Pivoting between utopia and dystopia, addressing uncertainties in our relation to nature with motifs of huts, chairs etc. Mostly oil on canvas, sometimes acrylic. Often densely textured, using raw pigment and resins, the surface acts as a counter movement, creating ‘tangible’ space, a tension between surface and depth.
ROSE PILKINGTON
Rose Pilkington is a digital artist creating immersive artwork, motion, and visual identities for brands, cultural projects, and spatial experiences.
This ongoing series of digital works is inspired by microscopic imagery of butterfly wings, revealing abstract worlds hidden beyond human perception. Through digital interpretation, colour, texture, and pattern emerge as vast landscapes, inviting viewers to look closer and consider the unseen layers that quietly shape the natural world.
TONY BENN
2011- retired Brighton University, Historical Critical Studies, Painting BA 1997 - retired Brighton University, Senior Lecturer, Painting BA 2001 – 2013 Farnham College, UCA, sessional lecturer, BA 2009 – 2012 Anglia Ruskin University, MFA Contextual Studies leader. 1996 – 1997 Goldsmith’s College, P/t Lecturer, MFA. 1992 – 1996 Glasgow School of Art, Lecturer, Painting BA.
The paintings are a car crash or hybrid of two parts of our culture. The Wetherspoons carpets and stately home (National Trust) flock wallpaper. Recalling the infamous claim of Greenberg that we live in a culture that can contain these two diametrically opposed objects and how does that help us explain ourselves to ourselves with these cultural objects.
VIRGINIA BRIDGE
Virginia Bridge is a contemporary artist, whose geometric abstract paintings and prints combine hard edged form and line with organic surface materiality to create minimal, yet quietly expressive work. Bridge works intuitively. Her work is a meditative response to lived experience, beyond narrative or realism, inviting the viewer to engage on a subliminal level, without a search for meaning.
Études 2301, 2304 and 2305 form part of a series of copper plate etchings with aquatint, made in 2023. ‘Étude’ is French for ‘study’ and was used by Chopin as a title for his challenging but highly evocative piano exercises. These etchings are ‘studies’ in form, line, balance and proportion.
