We are delighted to be participating once again in Artsy’s upcoming Foundations 2025 online fair. This year’s presentation will feature new works by gallery artists James Lumsden, Anke Roder, Laura Jane Scott, and Adam Taylor.
James Lumsden lives and work between Edinburgh and Point on the Isle of Lewis. While his paintings are fundamentally abstract, they often evoke elements of landscape and a strong sense of place—an influence shaped by his life on the island.
Lumsden’s primary concern as a painter is to create a sense of light and space. He achieves this through a meticulous process of applying multiple layers of translucent colour, layer upon layer until a sense of depth and feeling begins to emerge through the process.
Anke Roder lives and works in Zandeweer, north coast of the Netherlands. Her studio is surrounded by a large artistic garden, the colours of nature are of great importance for her practice.
Roder’s encaustic seascapes, sensuous satin slabs anchored along a welded horizon, ooze light. The ancient beeswax and pigment technique, applied in molten layers, conveys a contained elemental energy, loading the northern colours within a saturated interior. Seasons, light and weather are all captured, distilled through a northern romantic sensibility into beautiful paintings.
Laura Jane Scott’s desire for formal simplicity through geometric form and striking use of colour, has enabled her to produce work where painting explores a model of architectural form and where the colour embodies a physical structure. The resulting work is a hybrid of painting and sculpture, a refined visual vocabulary of form and colour.
Recently, Scott has been exploring the idea of removing elements of form, creating voids or spaces within the colour. She is also drawn to the shadows cast by her relief works and has been experimenting further with this interplay. By creating recessed forms—boxes, trays, or indents—she deliberately invites shadow, forming space where none previously existed.
These recessed works evoke themes of privacy, containment, and withdrawal. They express a tension between the desire to be seen and the instinct to retreat—an idea that resonates with her as an introvert who values and protects her personal space.
Adam Taylor is influenced by the coastal landscape of his rural surroundings in West Wales. This latest series of paintings explores abstraction through collage. Using paper, paint, and crayon, Taylor has created minimal compositions that investigate shape and negative space. These elements come together to form dreamlike landscapes—dreamscapes—that exist between the real and the imagined.
