Chasing colour
In Another Light: The Contemporary Dimension
11th to 14th february 2027
Following Chasing Colour in the UK, Oreofe Art Gallery is taking the exhibition to Paris for its next chapter — and we are opening submissions to artists who would like to be considered for this edition.
Taking place in Le Marais Paris on the 11th–14th February 2027, Chasing Colour: In Another Light will explore contemporary artistic practices through colour, form, texture, emotion and visual storytelling.
It has been TWO WHOLE YEARS since we held a show in one of our favourite cities and to celebrate we are expanding beyond abstraction and inviting submissions across a broader contemporary spectrum — from abstract and figurative painting to mixed media, photography, sculpture, ceramics, collage and other contemporary approaches.
Maevaughn chiu
With a degree in Theatre Design from NTU Maevaughn started her career as a scenic artist and prop-maker at Manchester Royal Exchange Theatre and Art Attack Exhibitions. Moving to Hong Kong, then Vancouver, Canada, worked as a muralist and decorative painter.
In 1994/5 Maevaughn taught at the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts, running courses in life drawing, perspective drawing and model making for BA(Hons) students.
Initially a figurative painter of portraits and landscapes in oil from life, Maevaughn began experimenting with abstract painting in 2017.
Maevaughn has travelled and lived in countries in Africa, Solomon Islands, Hong Kong and Canada, all of which inform her visual interests and vocabulary.She now lives and works in south London with her work is part of collections in the UK, the US, Canada and Europe.
“Maevaughn Chiu b ~ 1966 is an abstract painter. Her interest lies in the relationship between colour and form and the emotions they elicit from the viewer.
Drawing on her own life long relationship with art and design she often uses motifs she associates with particular chapters of her life as an aid to the indistinct memory of sensation. The shapes and forms are pulled from her subconscious visual library, images accumulated from her earliest memories of living in Malawi, Yorkshire and South Sudan among other places.
The colourful imagery of Post - modernism and the biomorphic forms of Modernism often feature in her compositions, with a background atmosphere and ‘architecture’, inhabited by shapes whose relationships with each other evoke a narrative.
She creates a vivid, enigmatic world where colours and forms converge. With a unique style she blends geometrical constructs with intriguingly calm, surreal backgrounds in a visual feast and a profound journey into the senses. It feels as though the world she paints is a moment frozen in time and has lost the noise and clutter of life.
The ellipse has held a fascination for her since studying interior design as a teenager, drawing technical drawings by hand. It suggests an iconography that alludes to otherworldliness, the orbit of the planets, or a portal to another dimension, a sense of adventure.
Using sketches and cut-outs to visualise the composition and allowing the colours to evolve fostering the mood or feeling of each piece she immerses herself in the sensation of applying the paint, finding the curve or brushstroke to give the right sensibility. Maevaughn paints intuitively, meticulously refining both background and forms until she feels a deep synchronisation with the work. ”
