Installing today in the #likelygeneralgallery , ‘Children of a Midnight Spring’, an exhibition of oil paintings by Olivia Di Gregorio.

I am honoured and elated to present Olivia’s first solo show within our humble walls. Her work extraordinarily captures the liminal landscape of both the internal and external oft magical feelings surrounding dreams, fears, traumas, and of course, the creative. I’ve been truly in love with it for some time.

The show runs all month long and will be available to view beginning tomorrow. Our gallery hours follow our store hours. Thank you for your remarkable warmth and trust, Olivia.

Exhibition Text:

‘Children of a Midnight Spring’ is inspired by changelings, transformation, and the creation of safe spaces. The series uses the stories of changelings from literature and from loved ones as a metaphor to communicate the idea of disappearance, and survival in fantastically isolated landscapes.

Olivia’s oil paintings are made to echo sentiments of healing while contributing to dialogues about mental health. They introduce transformative elements, adding complexity to landscapes of a dream world. These images often act as a visual escape, as well as a means of understanding experiences and what they mean to us. She prefers to believe this action is seen and experienced through the painting, as one looks into the worlds laid before them.

Her work explains dreams and the things loved in a language inspired by the PreRaphaelites; each painting drawing on images from history, mythology, and mysticism to develop their narrative.
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