Dreaming in colour

Opera Gallery London is proud to present ‘Dreaming in colour', a group exhibition starring new emerging artists.

Verapat Sitipol (b. 1980)

Verapat Sitipol is a Thai painter whose abstract canvases of rhythmic lines and shimmering colour-fields emerge directly from his deep bond with nature—especially the forests and waterfalls of his homeland. He uses background starts and vibrant hues to evoke the cyclical energy of life and the spiritual interconnection of all things.

Borja Colom (b. 1998) 

Borja Colom is a Madrid-born architect-artist whose paintings dissolve the line between space and surface, transforming his canvases into threshold-like windows where light, architecture, and colour meet. His work draws on his formal study in architecture to create compositions of spatial tension and minimalist conceptual poetics.

Andy Dixon (b. 1979)

Former musician turned painter, Vancouver-based Andy Dixon crafts lush, candy-coloured scenes that question the ties between art, wealth, and collectability. With a self-aware twist, his work riffs on luxury objects and asks: is art a pinnacle of culture or just another commodity?

Camilla Perkins (b. 1990) 

Camilla Perkins is a British painter and illustrator from East Sussex whose vibrant, dreamlike works use colour as a language of memory. Her garden scenes, sun-drenched getaways, and stylised figures feel like portals, inviting viewers into emotionally resonant moments from life’s softest corners.

Marcelo Canevari (b. 1991) 

Argentinian painter Marcelo Canevari blends figuration and uncanny surrealism in open-ended compositions that evoke both familiarity and mystery. Raised working under his father, a scientific illustrator, his work retains an observational precision even as it flirts with the poetic and the strange.

Grace Tobin (b. 1993) 

Grace Tobin is a British artist whose soft, atmospheric interiors and lush gardens explore how personal history and emotional perception shape the spaces we inhabit. Her richly patterned paintings balance repetition and absence to reveal psychological landscapes of home, memory, and identity.

Oh de Laval (b. 1990) 

Oh de Laval (Olga Pothipirom), a painter of Polish–Thai heritage, creates seductive, psychologically charged figurative works influenced by film noir and French New Wave cinema. Guided by a fierce, instinct-driven manifesto, she embraces hedonism, risk, and raw self-expression to capture the murky desires that shape human behaviour.

Jonni Cheatwood (b. 1986) 

American–Brazilian artist Jonni Cheatwood builds his canvases as quilt-like, sewn assemblages of denim, burlap, and found textiles, overlaid with gestural paint to explore memory and identity. His abstract-figurative work dissolves conventional portraiture by veiling faces and constructing textured narratives of personal history.

Arjen

Dutch painter Arjen creates surreal, minimalist compositions where the human figure dissolves into abstracted forms and organic cubism. His smooth gradients, deconstructed bodies, and subtle humour evoke a quiet tension, balancing psychological depth with visual restraint, situating his work at the intersection of minimalism and surrealism.

Caroline Larsen (b. 1980)

Canadian-born Caroline Larsen squeezes thick oil paint through pastry bags to “pipe” vivid floral still lifes and decorative vases in exuberant, textile-like compositions. Her work reimagines traditional still-life genres with a maximalist texture that feels both crafted and lushly organic.

Anna Ortiz (b. 1979)

Mexican-American painter Anna Ortiz creates symbolic, dream-inflected landscapes that weave together ancient myth, migration, and personal identity. Her work addresses the dualities of heritage and belonging through invented terrains that echo both memory and cultural hybridity.

Collins Obijiaku (b. 1995)

Self-taught Nigerian painter Collins Obijiaku creates intimate, textured portraits of Black men and women, layering oil, acrylic, and charcoal in expressive, cartographic linework. Through his piercing gazes and subtly mapped faces, he explores identity, heritage, and the emotional terrain of his community.