Artists: Victoria Rance - Alex Pemberton

Exhibiting for the first time together, Alexander Pemberton and Victoria Rance are showing their new and existing work that juxtaposes two approaches to the natural world.

Alexander Pemberton works on paintings over a considerable time, from life and often in series. He has worked along the Thames in Greenwich for 30 years and these paintings record the legacy of the London docks and the human impact on the natural world. Changes of light and atmosphere are studied in an effort to express the fleeting phases of nature. There is a poignancy also to the transience of these views: many have disappeared or will disappear as the city changes. The landscapes look at the singular form of trees or groups of trees, addressing them as portraits almost or personalities, each with its own distinct shape and direction.

Victoria Rance approaches the natural world with a mythologizing gaze. She sees darker themes - the threats to the flora and fauna around us caused by the interference of mankind. In this exhibition she is showing sculptures from 2001 onwards, and making a new site specific installation Dawn and the Demon. Using steel, pewter, fabric and wood, her iconic forms and creatures awaken archetypal forces and a desire to protect, as well as a fear for what happens if we don't.