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Sunday Salon 35 | |Journeys
Bernard Cohen, Nathan Cohen, Reiko Kubota.
Saturation Point, London | October 2025
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Journeys – Bernard Cohen, Nathan Cohen, Reiko Kubota
This collection of paintings and drawings is a small selection from the creative journeys we are making as artists from our beginnings to the present. We have had many conversations over the years and shared inspirations, while the resulting work has always been particular to each of our own explorations. We each have our own way of doing this and follow our own path, yet have the company of others as we make our creative journeys, from the past, present and into the future.
Impressions of the reds and ochres of the New Mexico landscape, or of shadows and dapples of light, traces of animals revealed through their paw prints, reflections of an aeroplane in the still waters of a pond, interior and exterior spaces coalescing in Kyoto temples, the impressions of petroglyphs in the rocks, geometries and refractions of patterns and light. These are some of the shared moments at different times and places translated into paintings that draw upon many sources of inspiration. Sensory experiences also find their form in the studio through the transformation of materials selected to translate and express these sensations. The processes of constructing a painting take time, which allows for reflection and contemplation. They are landscapes of the imagination that embrace symmetry and asymmetry, colour, light and depth, articulating the surfaces upon which they are created.
Much of what we do in our studios is not generally observed and is rarely viewed in the context of a public exhibition. There is an intimacy and privacy that is necessary to allow the work to evolve experimentally towards realising what is eventually shown, and the scale of the works selected also reflects this. The show takes place at the invitation of Saturation Point, an artists’ studio in London that also provides an exhibition space. Comparison and connections are made possible between the artworks as we exhibit together for the first time. Relationships between colour, tracings and contours of the pictorial and graphic forms interplay, with the arrangement of paintings and drawings revealing aspects of our individual creative journeys over time.
Fiorentina -
Maya II -
Untitled #2 -
