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Curating, writing/researching, mediumistic and visionary art. New exhibition Louise Janin June2026
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💫🔮NEW EXHIBITION IN LONDON🔮💫 Madge Gill The Arcan 💫🔮NEW EXHIBITION IN LONDON🔮💫

Madge Gill
The Arcana Drawings

Tuesday 21 – Friday 31 July 2026
Monday to Friday, 11am – 6pm

Curated by Vivienne Roberts @mediumisticart @madge.gill with @sworderslondon @swordersfineart 

Thursday 23 July, 6pm – 8pm - You are invited to a private drinks reception and evening viewing of the exhibition featuring a talk on Madge by Vivienne Roberts, curator and art historian specialising in enigmatic art. Register your interest by contacting london@sworder.co.uk

Sworders London Gallery
15 Cecil Court
London
WC2N 4EZ

For all images and prices see : www.sworder.co.uk/madge-gill-arcana-exhibition

Madge Gill: The Arcana Drawings brings together a jewel-like series of twenty-two ink drawings on postcards. Modest in scale yet central to Gill’s practice, these intimate works function as transmissions: part vision, part message, part meditation. Created across decades marked by war, uncertainty and personal adversity, they can be understood as missives from another realm, carrying themes of healing, hope and transformation.

#MadgeGill
One eye sees, the other feels on now until August One eye sees, the other feels on now until August 7th @thebinderylondon 

Presented by @vivienne.roberts.projects curated by @mediumisticart 

@melissaalley.artist 
@hannahluxton_ 
@jolewisart 
@olivia.streeton
New exhibition – One eye sees, the other feels is New exhibition - One eye sees, the other feels is now open. All welcome and a fully accessible space. 

Co-curated by Vivienne Roberts @mediumisticart with Vivienne Roberts @vivienne.roberts.projects 
who share not only a name, but also a shared vision in this exciting new exhibition. 

Featuring Artists: Melissa Alley, Jo Lewis, Hannah Luxton, Olivia Streeton
With historical works by: Ithell Colquhoun, Louise Janin, Grace Pailthorpe, Henri Pfeiffer

Venue: Vivienne Roberts Projects 
The Bindery, 53 Hatton Garden, London EC1N 8HN
@thebinderylondon 
Exhibition continues to 7th August 2026
Tuesday - Friday 11am - 5pm or by appointment

Taking its title from a quote by Paul Klee, one eye sees the other feels,  is an exhibition that considers painting as a multisensory practice in which feeling is as central to artistic creation as seeing. Bringing together contemporary and historical works, the exhibition examines how artists have used mediumistic, intuitive, and visionary approaches, including automatism, trance and meditation, to access forms of knowledge beyond ordinary perception.

The artists featured in the exhibition approach painting as both a creative and receptive act, occupying the role of channeller as much as originator. Here, the support becomes a site of transmission and transformation, where the flow of conscious intention merges with presences that appear to emerge from elsewhere: the subconscious, dreams, ancestral memory, spirit communication, cosmic energies, or intuitive connections to the natural world.

 @hannahluxton_ 
 @jolewisart 
 @melissaalley.artist 
 @olivia.streeton
New Exhibition on now!! Co-curated by Vivienne R New Exhibition on now!! 

Co-curated by Vivienne Roberts @mediumisticart with Vivienne Roberts @vivienne.roberts.projects 
who share not only a name, but also a shared vision in this exciting new exhibition.

ONE EYE SEES, THE OTHER FEELS 

Featuring Artists: Melissa Alley, Jo Lewis, Hannah Luxton, Olivia Streeton
With historical works by: Ithell Colquhoun, Louise Janin, Grace Pailthorpe, Henri Pfeiffer

Preview Tuesday 23rd June 6-15-8.15

Venue: Vivienne Roberts Projects 
The Bindery, 53 Hatton Garden, London EC1N 8HN
Exhibition continues to 7th August 2026
Tuesday - Friday 11am - 5pm or by appointment

Taking its title from a quote by Paul Klee, one eye sees the other feels,  is an exhibition that considers painting as a multisensory practice in which feeling is as central to artistic creation as seeing. Bringing together contemporary and historical works, the exhibition examines how artists have used mediumistic, intuitive, and visionary approaches, including automatism, trance and meditation, to access forms of knowledge beyond ordinary perception.

The artists featured in the exhibition approach painting as both a creative and receptive act, occupying the role of channeller as much as originator. Here, the support becomes a site of transmission and transformation, where the flow of conscious intention merges with presences that appear to emerge from elsewhere: the subconscious, dreams, ancestral memory, spirit communication, cosmic energies, or intuitive connections to the natural world.

Images: 1-2 Hannah Luxton @hannahluxton_ 
3,6,7 #LouiseJanin
4-5 Jo Lewis @jolewisart 
8-9 Melissa Alley @melissaalley.artist 
10-11 Olivia Streeton @olivia.streeton 
12 #IthellColquhoun
13 Grace Pailthorpe
14 Henri Pfeiffer

New Exhibition opening tomorrow!! 

Co-curated by Vivienne Roberts @mediumisticart with Vivienne Roberts @vivienne.roberts.projects 
who share not only a name, but also a shared vision in this exciting new exhibition.

ONE EYE SEES, THE OTHER FEELS 

Featuring Artists: Melissa Alley, Jo Lewis, Hannah Luxton, Olivia Streeton
With historical works by: Ithell Colquhoun, Louise Janin, Grace Pailthorpe, Henri Pfeiffer

Preview Tuesday 23rd June 6-15-8.15
SAVE THE DATE💫one eye sees, the other feels 💫 Exh SAVE THE DATE💫one eye sees, the other feels 💫

Exhibition presented by Vivienne Roberts Projects @vivienne.roberts.projects together with Vivienne Roberts @mediumisticart 

Gallery: Vivienne Roberts Projects 
Location: The Bindery, 53 Hatton Garden, London EC1N 8HN 
Dates: 23 June – 7 August 2026 
Private View: Tuesday 23 June, 6.15 – 8.15 pm 
Opening Hours: Tuesday - Friday 11am - 5pm (Free Admission)
Co-Curators: Vivienne Roberts and Vivienne Roberts (@mediumisticart)

Taking its title from a quote by Paul Klee, ‘one eye sees, the other feels’ brings together contemporary and historical artists whose practices explore painting as a multisensory and intuitive act. The exhibition examines how artists have used mediumistic, visionary and psychic approaches — including automatism, trance and meditation — to access forms of knowledge beyond ordinary perception. 

Featuring contemporary artists:
Melissa Alley @melissaalley.artist 
Jo Lewis @jolewisart 
Hannah Luxton @hannahluxton_ 
Olivia Streeton @olivia.streeton 

Alongside historical works by #IthellColquhoun #GracePailthorpe #LouiseJanin and Henri Pfeiffer, the exhibition traces a lineage of artists connected through sensation, intuition, spirituality and expanded states of awareness. Drawing on ideas linked to Spiritualism, Theosophy, Surrealism and alchemy, the works propose painting as both a creative and receptive process — one in which the artist acts as both maker and channeller. 

At a time of technological saturation and renewed spiritual searching, One Eye Sees, The Other Feels reconsiders visionary and mediumistic art as a vital and continuing aspect of contemporary practice.
Last day tomorrow – Sunday 7th!! Louise Janin: The Last day tomorrow - Sunday 7th!! Louise Janin: The Echo of the Spirit Through the Rhythms of Life

Thank you 🙏 to all of you that have visited so far and for your fantastic comments. Hats off for braving the weather and tube strikes too! For those that haven’t seen the show, there’s just one day left. Do pop in, you won’t be disappointed. 

Thank you 🙏 to @studio.ardworks and @siyu_chen_photography for your design and photography. 

Thank you 🙏 to @thegreatwomenartists for the fantastic interview featured on your substack. 

Curated by @simoncgrant and @mediumisticart 

#louisejanin First solo show in the UK
The Echo of the Spirit Through the Rhythms of Life The Echo of the Spirit Through the Rhythms of Life - in detail! 

Show ends Sunday 7th June

Curated by  @simoncgrant @mediumisticart 

36 Great Pulteney Street @gpsgallerysoho
See you next week for the opening of The Echo of t See you next week for the opening of The Echo of the Spirit Through the Rhythms of Life - the first UK solo exhibition of Louise Janin (1893-1997)

Curated by Simon Grant @simoncgrant and Vivienne Roberts @mediumisticart 

GPS Gallery @gpsgallerysoho 
36 Great Pulteney Street
Soho, London 
W1F 9NS

Preview 2nd June 6-8pm

3 - 7th June 2026
10-6pm (Free Admission)

Image: Design by @studio.ardworks
Photography: Siyu Chen Lewis

#louisejanin
Madge Gill is in Tate Britain! @madge.gill @tate Madge Gill is in Tate Britain! @madge.gill @tate 

Untitled - Venus Mid Heaven - a beautiful ink on calico and a fine example of mediumistic art is now on permanent display in the room called Reality and Dreams (1920-40) along with the cream of British art including works by #IthellColquhoun #EilenAgar #Gracepailthorpe Winifred Nicholson and #Gluck.

Congratulations to @gallevery for making this happen through during their solo presentation of Madge at Frieze Masters @friezemasters last year and 🙏 to Tate for recognising Madge after so many decades.

I may be a day early but who better to reflect upon and celebrate for this years #MarkTheirMemory than the inspiration that is Madge Gill. 🎉
NEW! Hilma af Klint exhibition curated by Pascal R NEW! Hilma af Klint exhibition curated by Pascal Rousseau at the Grand Palais in Paris. Wonderful balance of the figurative and abstract, theosophy and Spiritualism, and contextual material. The show flowed and the lighting was sublime - every detail brought to life. 

 “Recently revealed as a pioneer of abstraction, the Swedish artist Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) developed, in the early twentieth century, a fascinating body of work which has yet to be discovered in France. The exhibition presents her Paintings for the Temple (1906-1915), an important group of eleven series in which the artist recasts the line between visible and invisible, abstraction and figuration, through symbols, figures and geometric shapes. Inspired by Nordic folklore, natural science and esoterism, Hilma af Klint developed her visual vocabulary as part of The Five (De Fem) group of women, who produced “automatic drawings” during spiritist seances.
Driven by spirituality and freedom of expression, the work of Hilma af Klint continues to inspire new generations. More than a hundred canvases and drawings chart her spiritual journey, and at her request were not shown publicly until many years after her death.”

@hilmaafklintofficial 
@le_grand_palais 
@centrepompidou #expohilmaafklint
What an amazing micro-trip to Switzerland with @j_ What an amazing micro-trip to Switzerland with @j_lgallery and @roolutoo 

50 years 🎉 for @cablausanne with their new show:

Art Brut in Switzerland: From the Origins of the Collection to the Present is a celebration of The Collection de l’Art Brut in Lausanne, now operating for half a century. The concept of Art Brut dates back to the mid-20th century, when Jean Dubuffet developed an avid interest in works produced outside the confines of conventional art circles. Dubuffet coined the term in the summer of 1945, refining the concept through his subsequent reflections and discoveries – first in Switzerland, and later in France and elsewhere. This show highlights the role that Switzerland played in the emergence of a new genre that challenged prevailing categories and definitions and helped draw attention to the work of self-taught creators. 

Images 1-3 Aloise Corbaz, Wolfli 
Remaining images - posters from some of the iconic exhibitions on mediumistic and visionary art over the last five decades.
Happy Birthday Georgiana Houghton born on April 20 Happy Birthday Georgiana Houghton born on April 20th, 1814. 

In 1871 she presented 155 of her spirit drawings in a solo show at the New British Gallery on Old Bond Street, London. She wrote the introduction on her birthday saying “I earnestly hope that some of the visitors to this gallery, who have leisure to devote themselves to it, will go home, and try to obtain this delightful gift, but they must bear in mind that extreme patience and perseverance are needed for all Spiritual work. In my own case, the drawing power would appear to have come with very great rapidity, but they must remember that I had already been a medium for upwards of a year and a half, after having steadily striven for it during these months. For the drawing phase I was also prepared by my own earthly training, having devoted the chief part of my life to that accomplishment.”

Georgiana sat nearly every day in the gallery wearing her day bonnet and posing as a visitor, but ready to explain to those interested in listening all about her enigmatic creations. Clergymen, artists and a microscopist showed the most interest. The critics were baffled. One said it was as if a lady’s wool basket had been tossed about with a toasting fork. Another remarked that a troop of fairies had dropped jewels across a canvas by Turner.
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