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Maud Whatley -Ass van
2026
17.6 x 28cm
Coloured pencil on paper

The second in our now live Flat Works online exhibition, running 21.10.2026 - 30.11.2026

@maudwhatley is represented by @liminal_gallery

Based in Margate, she has shown work there at Liminal Gallery (Haunches, 2024, solo), LIMBO (A convenient size for the lap, 2019) and CRATE (Domino, 2018) as well as in London (Entangled, Saatchi Gallery, 2025 and Careless whisper, 2019) and Folkestone (Giggling quietly at the feel of it, 2018). She has spoken at the London Conference of Critical Thought (2018) and published drawings in Hotel magazine (2021).

Visit the exhibition online at moonriverpenryn.co.uk

Please send enquiries to moonriverpenryn@gmail.com

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My work is made in a world increasingly dominated by speed, screens and artificial intelligence.

Painting offers a different way of being in the world. It asks us to slow down, to look closely and to give something our undivided attention. In this sense, the act of painting, and the act of looking, become quiet forms of resistance.

'In Memory of Tomorrow III' reflects on vulnerability and hope. In daylight, the painting appears muted, its geometric void holding a sense of uncertainty. After dark, phosphorescent pigment transforms the image, revealing a luminosity that was always latent within it.

I am interested in this shift between what we can see and what remains hidden, and in the possibility that hope persists even when the future is uncertain.

➡️ for Revelation…

You can view this painting (and two others in the series) in person at:

Liminal Gallery in Margate - as part of the SPACE group show.

PV: Sat 7th November 5 - 7pm

Open: 6th - 28th November 2026
Thursday - Saturday | 12 - 5pm

#contemporarylandscapepainting #hope #contemporarypainting #crepuscular #phosphorescent

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LOVE YOU TO BITS. FINGERS TO THE BONE. NO WORDS. NOW WHAT? WINGING IT AGAIN.

The titles of @zenablackwellartist paintings tell an entire story.

Biding My Time. Trial and Error. Curveball. Go Backwards to Go Forwards.

An entire life in a few words.

Tonight I open “Winging It” at @liminal_gallery in Margate. And I think these paintings speak to something almost universally recognisable, particularly when it comes to motherhood and womaning (is that even a word?!).

The endless juggle. The compromises, exhaustion, unexpected detours and extraordinary amount of humour required to get through an ordinary Tuesday.

And the choice we make, again and again, to show up, love fiercely and do it all with some semblance of grace. Even when we’re making it up as we go along.

Zena’s paintings are strange, witty, tender and wonderfully unsettling. There’s real intelligence beneath all that glorious colour.

And something especially moving about an artist who spent years raising children, now turning that experience into art, in a gallery whose owner is herself on maternity leave!

This isn’t an emerging artist finding her voice. It’s an artist whose voice has been there all along, finally being heard.

And just a quick thought about collecting for you all: what if we bought art not as an investment, but because it understands something about our lives? Because it makes us laugh, wince or feel seen?

I believe people will look back and wish they’d discovered Zena sooner because she’s tapping into something so much of us feel so deeply.

17 paintings. £680–£4,500. And I’d LOVE to find them homes with people who get it.

Which title feels like your life right now? Mine might be Winging It Again. Although 80/20 is giving it a run for its money.

WINGING IT | ZENA BLACKWELL
Curated by Carrie Scott
Maternity Gallery, Margate
17–31 October

DM for the catalogue, prices and availability. ❤️

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That’s a wrap! Thank you so much to everybody who came down to see MULTISTOREY over the last few weeks. Something really shifted while these ceramic vessels were spilling their guts into these paintings, and seeing them bring each other to life all over again in the gallery has already got new things fizzing back in the studio.

Photography by @robertgreshoff

Thanks to @liminal_gallery and @louise_fitzjohn

@turpsmargate @turps_mass_showreel

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While the entire art world runs around London for Frieze Week, I ran away to hang paintings in Margate @liminal_gallery.

And frankly, I couldn’t be happier.

Meet @zenablackwellartist

An artist whose career hasn’t followed the neat trajectory the art world likes to reward. Life took precedence for a while. But talent doesn’t have an expiry date. Zena’s paintings are strange, tender, funny, unsettling and utterly singular. They explore childhood, identity and the peculiar psychological worlds we inhabit. I find them completely irresistible.

I’m enormously proud to be curating this exhibition and helping introduce Zena’s work to a wider audience.

We open tomorrow in Margate. A perfect antidote to the Frieze frenzy. And perhaps a reminder that some of the most exciting art isn’t where everyone else is looking. It takes an hour and a bit on the fast @sw_railway from @stpancrasinternational

Come see for yourself. ❤️

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FLAT WORKS 🥿

A sale of flat works by a special roster of artists will launch here on the 21st October 2026

The sale will help to launch Moon River - all works will be available online via a web shop that will be made easily accessible through this account.

You can also enquire about all of the works that will be shown at moonriverpenryn@gmail.com

Image:

Ta da!, 2026. 28 x 20.2cm. Coloured pencil on paper.

@maudwhatley @liminal_gallery

Maud Whatley makes drawings which layer images and motifs taken from art-historical paintings, online archives, her camera roll and google image results. Her work intends to explore some of the politics of looking at things, the unexpected eroticism of placing different ideas in the context of one another and the ways in which the repetitive insistent touches of drawing can be sexy and weird.

#drawing #worksonpaper

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Paul Hazelton & Alice Herrick are thrilled to announce their much-anticipated group show…

SPACE
Liminal Gallery, 34 Fort Hill, Margate, CT9 1HD
6-28 November 2026
PV: Saturday 7 November 5-7pm
Opening times: Thurs-Sat 12-5pm or by appointment

SPACE unites a constellation of local and international artists in a tiny space that presents infinite possibilities. The exhibition includes a hologram, photography, sculpture, painting and poetry, with the curators Paul Hazelton & Alice Herrick showing their own work alongside Louise Beer, Ben Caro & Kat Cutler-MacKenzie, Cedric Christie, Poppy Cockburn, Pippa Darbyshire, Deborah Grice, Marcelle Hanselaar, Vivien Lee, Julia Maddison, Michael Petry, Thelma Speirs, David Spero, Yuri Suzuki and Wenyon & Gamble.

Accentuated by the scale of Liminal, our aim for this exhibition is to show that artists, through their practice, shift our perceptions of space, with the gallery thus becoming a lens to focus in closely on each artist’s vision.

Situated opposite Turner Contemporary, Liminal Gallery might be small in comparison, yet in scope we believe SPACE can be defined by something wholly more immeasurable.

Paul Hazelton and Alice Herrick are Margate based artists and curators and have been collaborating on exhibitions and events locally and in London since 2009.

@liminal_gallery @pahazelton @aliceherrickstudio

@louise.beer @ben_caro_ @katcutmac @cedricchristiestudio @tru_romank @pippadarbyshire @deborahgrice_art @m_hanselaar @v.i.v.l.e.e @juliamaddison @michael___petry @thelmaspeirs @david.spero @yurisuzukilondon @wenyonandgamble

#space #exhibition #margate #liminalgallery #curator

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✨I am so excited to have been invited to exhibit three new paintings in a group show called SPACE.

It opens on the 6/11/26 at @liminal_gallery in Margate.

I will be showing three new pieces in my ‘In Loving Memory of Tomorrow’ series. (I’ll share more about them in later posts, but here’s a little shufty.)

Thank you so much to the curators Paul Hazelton and Alice Herrick for the invitation, it is much appreciated.

PV:
Saturday 7 November 5 - 7pm

Open:
6 - 28 November 2026
Thursday - Saturday | 12 - 5pm

✨✨The constellation of exhibiting artists are:
Louise Beer @louise.beer
Ben Caro @ben_caro_ & Kat Cutler-MacKenzie @katcutmac
Cedric Christie @cedricchristiestudio
Poppy Cockburn @tru_romank
Pippa Darbyshire @pippadarbyshire
Deborah Grice @deborahgrice_art
Marcelle Hanselaar @m_hanselaar
Vivien Lee v.i.v.l.e.e
Julia Maddison @juliamaddison
Michael Petry @michael___petry
Thelma Speirs thelma.speirs.art
David Spero @david.spero
Yuri Suzuki @yurisuzukilondon
Wenyon & Gamble @wenyonandgamble

@pahazelton @aliceherrickstudio @liminal_gallery #space #artandscience #margate #margateexhibitions #spaceweek

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Descent
Oil on unstretched canvas
2026
100 x 175 cm

This was the last big painting I worked on before the worlds spilled from my vessels condensed into smaller wooden panels.

Today is the last official day to see MULTISTOREY at @liminal_gallery although it will be open by appointment until Thursday if you’d like to visit.

MULTISTOREY
1-11 October
Liminal Gallery
34 Fort Hill, Margate, CT9 1HD
11am-4pm

Photos 2, 3 & 5 by @robertgreshoff

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In early 2024 I took part in @a_bprojects Studio Session, Pedestal Problems, with @takming_chuang - the smell of clay was actually giving me pretty bad morning sickness at the time but that series of conversations and together-apart experimentation over Zoom really shifted things for me.

Through the discussions I started making a series of vessels with their own ceramic pedestals, combining elements made with different types of clay into self-contained, totem-like sculptures. I had just finished the elements of each piece, ready for assembly, when I had to leave the studio suddenly and they were left wrapped in plastic for about a year before I returned and excavated them.

Encountering these bone dry fragments, I decided to let the kiln take a role in joining them. I made some new vessels to complete the series, spending time carving the surfaces, adding coloured slip and drawing with underglaze pencils.

Somewhere along the way, the pedestals I had set out to complete became inverted so that I ended up with a series of strange vessels with lids - some fused on through the firing process and some balanced on top, shifting with each new arrangement.

This of course left me with a new pedestal problem - nothing was quite right on which to rest these characters until, while planning my son’s second birthday, I found a mega pack of construction blocks at Smyth’s Toys. They are the perfect playful foil to these vessels, which themselves spawned the paintings that make up this exhibition.

MULTISTOREY continues for its final weekend, open Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th 11am-3pm
@liminal_gallery
34 Fort Hill, Margate CT9 1HD

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🛑A little reminder to slow down 🐌

Margaret Calvert’s 20mph (2023),takes a familiar road sign and gives it a playful twist. Made at full scale using the retroreflective material found on UK roads, its bright, unexpected colours replace the usual road-sign palette.

Calvert is best known for developing Britain’s road sign system alongside Jock Kinneir. Together, they created the Transport and Motorway typefaces, pictograms and colour system that still shape how we navigate Britain’s roads today. 20mph draws on this familiar visual language but gives it a different purpose.

The work is part of Calvert’s ‘Play’ projects, personal works made for herself rather than for a client.
While a 20mph sign usually tells drivers how fast they can go, Calvert’s version offers a gentler invitation to slow down and take your time.

Now in David Parr House as part of Moving Stories, the word is a reminder to slow down and consider the work of David Parr, who spent four decades decorating his house in his own time, alongside his professional work for F.R. Leach & Sons. For both artists, personal projects offered space to experiment beyond the demands of commissioned work.

See 20mph as part of House Guests: Moving Stories at David Parr House, open until 9 January 2027. #

Thanks to @liminal_gallery & Margaret Calvert

#margaretcalvert #houseguests #exhibition #roadsign

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