Flowers Gallery presents In Flux, a solo exhibition of new works by London-based artist Liza Giles.
Flowers Gallery is pleased to present In Flux by Liza Giles from 5 June until 5 July 2025. The exhibition title reflects Giles’ process-driven approach, where the act of creation is continuously evolving and in constant transformation. Throughout her practice, Giles explores the tension between fluidity and control, presence and absence, capturing the dynamic, ever-changing nature of her work as it unfolds. This sense of flux permeates each piece, allowing the works to emerge organically, shifting and adapting as they progress.
For the first time, Giles introduces six-panel works that are flipped and switched both vertically and horizontally, allowing her to expand the physical and visual complexity of her compositions. As with earlier works, the paintings are built on unprimed canvas, laid flat to maintain control over form and surface. Each piece features a contrast of hard-line edges and painterly raw edges, reflecting a tension between precision and gesture that runs throughout the exhibition.
Giles works with a limited colour palette inspired by the natural landscape, earthy siennas and umbers, grass greens and sky blues, grounded by large areas of her signature ultra-matt black, a pigment that absorbs 99% of light and creates a velvet-like depth. These colours move across the surface with a quiet rhythm, creating a strong sense of push and pull between the positive and negative spaces.
While rooted in the legacy of Abstract Expressionism, with echoes of Franz Kline, and Helen Frankenthaler, Giles’ work is also shaped by her background in printed textiles and by living and working in London. Giles’ process resists overthinking. Each painting evolves through spontaneous reconfiguration and visual experimentation, often refined through photographing different panel combinations around the studio. Her practice becomes a form of mindfulness, an effort to switch off from modern noise and return to a flow state. For Giles, painting is a way of disconnecting from the algorithmic feedback loops of contemporary life.
Rather than offering fixed meanings, Giles’ paintings invite viewers to connect with their own responses, to feel rather than interpret.