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Waterhouse & Dodd is delighted to present a selection of works by four artists working in abstraction: Danielle Frankenthal, Cheryl Goldsleger, Iris Rufert-Rivo, and Annina Roeschiesen.

All four artists strive to make the intangible fabric of our lives visible, whether that be the effects of color and light, cultural conditioning and upheaval, vibrational energies generated by human connection, or links between perception, thought, and vision. These frequencies are then translated to new visual languages, often in complex and striking ways. Each artist works in layers, building up pigments, marks, and structures to form their visions, creating interplays between the varied surfaces. Each work is distinct, but shares a similar focus on translation or transmutation, of rendering thought and discourse onto a material surface. Each piece is not only an aesthetic display, but complicated concepts and rendering them comprehensible to all.

With this group of 14 paintings from the 1950s and 1960s we trace Edna Mann’s development from pupil of David Bomberg, and founder of the Borough Group, to an independent artist with her own unique vision.

Having been cast out by Bomberg from his inner circle, for the apparent crime of getting pregnant and becoming a mother, Edna was able to experiment more freely with abstraction than her former associates. In this rare group of paintings sourced from her son’s attic one can see the variety of influences that followed after Borough.

Paintings from this online exhibition can be viewed at 16 Savile Row, and a selection will be on view at the Masterpiece Fair from 29^th June – 6^th July.