All This Has Happened Before conveys a powerful sense of movement like sunlight bursting through heavy cloud after a storm. For Genevieve Leavold the work is about the ability to find light in the darkest moments.

Genevieve, a British abstract painter based in Belgrade, works to create freeform, organic paintings and drawings. Central to her work are questions about our increasing separation from nature and the impact this has on our humanity.

Growing up in Somerset, Genevieve explains that as a child she spent hours amongst nature observing it closely. She is now particularly drawn to organic forms like lichen, mosses and Fungi, marine plant and microbiological and mycological shapes and colours. 

Genevieve's work is gestural and immediate, working wet colour into wet and layering glazes. She describes her process of application of paint on canvas as a mediative process. 

Accolades

Solo Exhibitions: Legacy, Fitrovia Gallery, London 2019. Fugue States - States, Magacin Kultural Center, Belgrade 2019. Desire Paths, Fitzrovia Gallery, London 2018. If Not Now, Center 424, Belgrade 2018. Glimpses, Center 424, Serbia 2016

Selected Group Exhibtions: Free From Form - Polet, Belgrade 2018. Observations of a Dog, Safehouse I&II, London 2018. From ArtCan with Love, London 2017.  Tribe17, Oxo Bargehouse, London 2016. At this Point in Time, The Scottish Arts Club, Edinburgh 2016. The Tunnel, Waterstones Gallery, London 2016.