group show

Flourish
Ronchini Gallery
2025

from Ronchini Gallery’s Press Release:

Featuring four dynamic female artists: Michele Fletcher, Connie Harrison, Shuang Jiang, and Shara Mays spanning three continents, whose practices explore gestural, baroque-esque abstractions infused with floral undertones and inspired by landscape, Flourish marks Ronchini’s inaugural exhibition at its new Conduit Street space. 

Every painting in Flourish pulsates with emotional intensity and layered complexity, drawing from landscape and expressive mark making to create lush, evocative compositions. Each artist brings a distinct perspective, yet together their works converse in a language of movement, transformation, and metamorphosis. Flourish celebrates this shared sensibility, an exuberant visual language that feels at once instinctive and ornamental, rooted in the natural world yet transcending it through abstraction. 

Canadian born, London based Michelle Fletcher’s paintings are a commentary on the tension between human progress and the natural world, and how this relationship is strained and evolving. Both prophetic and profound in subjectivity, Fletcher’s works transcend this volatile dynamic to create harmonious flowing paintings. Her work is done in a single sitting with layer upon layer adding gestural physicality to her lyrical landscape works, where this gesture is the only evidence of human interaction. 

Connie Harrison’s practice begins with photographing ancient woodlands, lush garden scenes, and flower elements in her native United Kingdom. She then combines elements from her photographs and uses a specific technique of layering wax paste and oil paint with incised lines to create richly textured and elegant landscape works. Her works celebrate nature’s exquisite, and colourful complexity with rhythmic brush strokes and saturated hues. 

Shuang Jiang is a Chinese born, London based artist whose works articulate the interplay between personal trauma and the natural world, illustrating how the human concepts of decay and renewal are reflected in the cyclical patterns of the natural world. Using the visceral power of mark making, Jiang’s works explode with energy, creating a microcosm of the universe, a spark of consciousness that reverberates with the rhythms of creation. 

Shara Mays’ works are imbued with the extreme labour and physicality of her practice with every brushstroke a testament to movement, exertion, and emotion. Inspired by natural terrains Mays’ works blur the boundaries between outer environments and inner states of being. Born in North Carolina and now living between Oakland California and Cartagena, Columbia, her works are full of exuberant colour, with each mark revealing a deeply personal, intuitive journey, channelling the energy of life. 

Flourish marks a moment of renewal and transformation for the gallery itself, as its inaugural exhibition in its new Conduit Street location. The themes of growth, rebirth and evolution present in the artist’s work mirror this new chapter, an invitation to begin again, and flourish.