Flourish: Gestural Abstractions in Bloom
16th October, 2025 – 12th December, 2025
Ronchini Gallery
21 Conduit Street
First Floor
London, W1S 2XP
Four artists, three continents—gestural, floral-infused abstractions that celebrate movement, transformation, and renewal.
Featuring four dynamic female artists—Michele Fletcher, Connie Harrison, Shuang Jiang, and Shara Mays—spanning three continents, whose practices explore gestural, baroque-esque abstractions infused with floral undertones and inspired by landscape, Flourish marks Ronchini’s inaugural exhibition at its new Conduit Street space.
Every painting in Flourish pulsates with emotional intensity and layered complexity, drawing from landscape and expressive mark making to create lush, evocative compositions. Each artist brings a distinct perspective, yet together their works converse in a language of movement, transformation, and metamorphosis. Flourish celebrates this shared sensibility—an exuberant visual language that feels at once instinctive and ornamental, rooted in the natural world yet transcending it through abstraction.
oil and wax on wooden panel, 150×160 cm
Canadian-born, London-based Michele Fletcher’s paintings are informed by the rhythm, movement, and organic growth found in natural forms and the vegetal world. Relying on visual memory, her work articulates sensation over place, unfolding as a process-led, abstracted rumination on light, colour, and form within the context of a garden. The making of a garden, like a painting, involves an intervention with material—pulling, pushing, manipulating, and composing. Her paintings are grounded in both the tradition of landscape painting and the language of abstraction.
oil on linen
70 x 140 cm each panel
Connie Harrison’s practice begins with photographing ancient woodlands, lush garden scenes, and flower elements in her native United Kingdom. She then combines elements from her photographs and uses a specific technique of layering wax paste and oil paint with incised lines to create richly textured and elegant landscape works. Her works celebrate nature’s exquisite, colourful complexity with rhythmic brushstrokes and saturated hues.
Shuang Jiang is a Chinese-born, London-based artist whose works articulate the interplay between personal trauma and the natural world, illustrating how the human concepts of decay and renewal are reflected in the cyclical patterns of the natural world. Using the visceral power of mark making, Jiang’s works explode with energy, creating a microcosm of the universe—a spark of consciousness that reverberates with the rhythms of creation.
oil on linen
90 x 100 cm
Shara Mays’ works are imbued with the extreme labour and physicality of her practice, with every brushstroke a testament to movement, exertion, and emotion. Inspired by natural terrains, Mays’ works blur the boundaries between outer environments and inner states of being. Born in North Carolina and now living between Oakland, California, and Cartagena, Colombia, her works are full of exuberant colour, with each mark revealing a deeply personal, intuitive journey that channels the energy of life.
Flourish marks a moment of renewal and transformation for the gallery itself, as its inaugural exhibition in its new Conduit Street location. The themes of growth, rebirth, and evolution present in the artists’ work mirror this new chapter—an invitation to begin again, and to flourish.
Flourish: Gestural Abstractions in Bloom opens on the 16th of October, 2025 until the 12th of December, 2025 at Ronchini Gallery
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