Liminal Horizons
Upcoming Exhibition | December 6 - 28
Opening Event 3 - 5pm Saturday December 6
I’d love to warmly invite you to the opening of my upcoming solo exhibition, Liminal Horizons, on Saturday 6th December 2025, from 3–5pm at &Gallery, 21 Morce Avenue, Sorrento.
This new body of work continues my exploration of the threshold between worlds — where light and landscape merge, and the old gives way to the new. I would be so delighted to share this next chapter with you in person and to celebrate together in this beautiful coastal setting.
‘Whispers Through a Gilded Sky’ | Acrylic, Foil, Metallic Leaf, Screen Print and Epoxy Resin on Birch | 120cm x 120cm
In her latest body of work, Liminal Horizons, artist Nerina Lascelles continues her exploration of the transcendent qualities of landscape — but with a renewed urgency and poignancy for the times we find ourselves in.
Humanity, she observes, stands within a great threshold: unable to return to what once was, and unable to yet see what lies ahead. It is within this liminal space — the place between dissolution and emergence — that these new works find their voice.
The paintings shimmer with the textures of transformation. Layers of pigment, metallic leaf, and translucent resin create an alchemical surface — as if the earth itself were in a slow process of revealing. Lascelles’ luminous horizons and ancient, weathered landscapes speak to a world in transition: the crumbling of old paradigms, the erosion of illusion, and the quiet uncovering of long-buried wisdom.
Through her distinctive use of gold and mineral tones, Nerina evokes both the sacred and the elemental. The works echo the grandeur of geological time, yet their stillness invites contemplation of something deeply human — a return to the essence that lies beneath material distraction. The light within these landscapes becomes a metaphor: a subtle guide leading us back toward truth, balance, and the luminous stillness at our core.
Influenced by the meditative traditions of the East and the natural landscapes of Australia, Lascelles draws from sources as varied as Shanshui painting, Japanese lacquerware, and the ancient geological memory of the earth itself. Her work bridges epochs and sensibilities, inviting viewers to enter a space of reflection — where boundaries blur, and where beauty is found in both the breaking down and the becoming.
As the artist reflects, “We can’t quite make out what lies ahead — but within the uncertainty, there is light. There is wisdom that was always there, waiting to be seen.”
