Browse & Darby are proud to present their first exhibition of work by contemporary artist Nicholas Rena (b.1963) on Cork Street in Mayfair, London, from 10 October – 2 November 2012.

Rena’s work is concerned with uniting figure with landscape, emptiness with fulfilment. The vessels, so evidently empty, have the capacity to be filled and their variety of soft, sumptuous and celebratory colours reflect how an encounter (both in nature and with another person) can move between absence and fulfilment.

This group of vessels, like nature, all reach up towards the heavens or the sun, through which Rena aims to give form to one’s own abstract longings. Rena describes this sentiment as ‘the human figure relates to the world in a forward way, while nature (like the spirit and the vessel) relates upward.’ It is evident that there is a direct influence from artists such as Anthony Caro and Henri Matisse in Rena’s use of form and colour.