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Champagne Reception: Pink Bliss Sofia Cacciapaglia View this email in your browser THIS FRIDAY, CHAMPAGNE RECEPTION: 21st April from 6 - 9pm The Palm Tree Gallery  is pleased to present  PINK BLISS , a solo exhibition by Italian artist  Sofia Cacciapaglia . Influenced by 20th Century painters Sofia has created a new body of work for the exhibition that combines the Apollonian and Dionysian: the passionate culture of Sicily, ancient Greece and Mediterranean civilisations. For this show the artist has used strong tones of reds and pinks reinforcing her profound poetic sensibility. Sofia’s oil paintings depict female forms and flowers in a ‘figurative-symbolic’ style. Her use of diptychs and triptychs and the negative space around her confident brush strokes create an elegant and ethereal feeling. ‘The forms are imposing yet light, they inhabit an unreal, timeless space’. The classic figures suspended in the space compliment each other and soft...

Alexandra Harley MRBS www.alexandraharley.co.uk Currently My sculpture Bitan has been shortlisted for the Royal Academy summer exhibition Esclise has just finished being on show at the Chilli Gallery in Athens. This  sculpture won the Tassis prize and was cast by the Tassis Foundry in Greece    I am undertaking the AA2A fellowship at Chelmsford College until July 2017 Forthcoming I shall be showing with the Brancaster Chronicle Artists at the Heritage Gallery, Greenwich, London April 2017 https://brancasterchronicles. wordpress.com/ I shall be showing in Holborn Old Library, London in October 2017. I am returning to Anguilla in December to create a sculpture commemorating the 50th anniversary of independence.