White Cube presents an exhibition of paintings by London-based Canadian artist Michele Fletcher. Informed by the natural world and guided by visual memory, Fletcher’s process-driven works are marked by her distinctive use of colour and haptic brushwork, which confer an organic dynamism to her abstract forms.

Over the past 20 years, Fletcher has developed a process-led practice, one that involves the direct channelling of imagined imagery onto the canvas. Painted ‘wet on wet’ in a single sitting, sometimes extending up to a 12-hour stretch, Fletcher’s method engages the body in an act of physical endurance. This physical relationship between the artist and her canvas can be charted through the paint, which is scraped, dragged and dripped across the surface. Loose, gestural passages of paint wind around each other, creating a complex network of forms suggestive of sinuous stems, foliage, petals. The product of an intuitive approach, her works combine a freedom of expression with a chromatic vibrancy, one that speaks to the inherent dynamism and variegation of vegetal life. Many, if not all, of the paintings make use of layered colour and coiled marks, both of which serve to crowd out the foreground, all but eclipsing a pale-coloured ground.

Exhibition Preview: 14 January 2025, 5–8pm
Artist Tour: 5pm

Gallery address: 50 Connaught Road Central