Seeing a landscape involves much more than simply viewing the land. Memories, emotions, excitement and trepidation – all contribute to create the visual experience of the spaces around us.

Sesame is proud to present “A Mystery About Places”, a visual journey exploring the gap between our physical surroundings and the thoughts we use to perceive them, through the paintings of Sarah Kogan and Gemma Hodge.

Sarah Kogan uses subtle and understated imagery to create an enigmatic, unsettling stillness, evoking journeys towards empty horizons or across dense seas. The paintings are concerned with the immigrant’s passage to an unknown and indecipherable world. Using naturalistic colour and an emphasis on tone, the paintings depict a reality with which we are all familiar, leaving the viewer to contemplate themselves and the landscape in solitude, wondering what the future holds.

Gemma Hodge paints with a superb command of light and atmosphere, placing the viewer in a magical, timeless space firmly in the tradition of Irish landscape painting but translated to the British city. At times almost photographic, her cityscapes are charged with a hazy air that makes them soft, sensitive, and yet at the same time intensely engaging. Originally from Waterford, Gemma lives and works in London.

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