We are delighted to present this wonderful show featuring beautifully uplifting abstract paintings by two very distinctive artists and gallery favourites; Suffolk based Boo Compton and Surrey based Carrie Jean Goldsmith.

Boo Compton (b. 1969) a Graphic Design graduate, ran her own successful design studio in London for many years before moving to Suffolk where she now lives and works.

Her ‘Long Summer’ series of mixed media paintings made specifically for this show, demonstrate her long held love of colour.  The series suggests warmer days and the big open spaces that make up the countryside surrounding her home.  Her palette of soft greens and pinks describe a sense of calm and contentment that the landscape imbues in her.

Her paintings for this show are mixed media, using charcoal, oil sticks and acrylic paint. Boo has pushed the abstraction using colour as a suggestion, moving beyond what a single piece can convey, and using recurring motifs to create a cohesive, storytelling narrative

Carrie Jean Goldsmith (b. 1971) left a successful job in the music industry to pursue her love of art. Studying at Heatherley School of Fine Art, London and the University of Sussex, she has a Post Graduate Diploma in Visual Arts.

Carrie’s series, ‘Held Forms’, presents abstract paintings that operate in close relation to landscape without resolving into depiction. Her work, however, is not site specific, but rather, is drawn from memories of different places she has visited

Forms emerge, stabilise, and disperse, suggesting horizons, spatial depth, and distance while remaining deliberately indeterminate. The notion of ‘holding’ underpins the work both structurally and perceptually.

The collection engages with its underlying conditions, translated through abstraction. Held Forms proposes a measured exploration of how form is sustained, disrupted and reconfigured, inviting the viewer to navigate a space that feels both familiar and ambiguous.