08/15/2026
Jessie Stevenson opens on September 12th. Join us to celebrate from 6-8pm. The artist will be present.
Dream Factory is an exhibition of new paintings. This is the artist’s third solo exhibition with the gallery and her first in California.
Stevenson painted the works on show following her first visit to California. This painting is titled ‘Grassy Buckeye, Cherry and Toyon’ (2026). Hills and skies appear in successive gestures, intended to evoke the layering of plant life in the Ojai valley.
Jessie Stevenson
Grassy Buckeye, Cherry and Toyon, 2026
Oil on canvas
39 1/2 x 29 1/2in (100 x 75cm)
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Jessie Stevenson
The British artist is known for reworking Romantic ideals in landscape painting. Here, she made a series of plein air sketches in Ojai, Hollywood, Venice, and San Diego. Then returning to her studio in London, the sketches formed the basis of this new body of oil paintings on canvas.
A trailing iridescent blue, mixed with brighter pigments, recurs across the sequence. The artist create oils with a pigment grinding process developed from their own material research. On canvas, Stevenson layers an emulsion of egg, oil, and dry titanium powder to replicate the flat texture of the sketchbook page.
Once the canvas ground is hard, Stevenson applies oils in successive semi-transparent glazes. It can take months to progress from the first layers to the final marks.
