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This is a collection of painterly reveries as intimate portraits of desire and despair, fantastical journeys with pastoral and mystical interludes as well as Neo-expressionistic scenes of street life.

The artists’ sources are many - for Joana Galego they are mainly autobiographical and an entry into the life of emotions. Ben Westley Clarke is inspired by Arthur Rimbaud’s poetry, Goya’ imagery, German Expressionism and cinema. Paul Newman’s apocalyptic paintings are influenced by Gainsborough, Hogarth, identifying with the hope and hopelessness of Don Quixote. Oliver Dorrell is a world …