CLOSE TO THE SUN
Jake Aikman’s first solo exhibition ‘close to the sun’ with The Finch Project presents a suite of new paintings that capture a present moment seeped in nostalgia; a quality inherent to the sea: always changing, yet enduringly familiar. The origins of this exhibition’s title lie in Alfred Tennyson’s poem ‘The Eagle’ the line ‘close to the sun’ prompted Jake Aikman to reflect on his late father and the subtle tonal shift in his work since that personal loss. In these new seascapes, warm, uncanny sepia light bathes tidal horizons, inviting us to gaze backward into the past, into memory, and invites questions about the nature of perception itself.
Catalogue Essay courtesy: Guest Curator, Nico Kos Earle
Image: THE FINCH PROJECT
