@thegreatwomenartists fourth annual show is now on view! Through January 30th by appointment at [email protected] The show features works by @lydiablakeley, here seen in install shots, @elizahopewell and @itskimeze “I am delighted to be collaborating with Edoardo Monti for the fourth annual The Great Women Artists Residency at Palazzo Monti. This year features three of Britain’s most exciting painters: Lydia Blakeley, Eliza Hopewell and Christina Kimeze. This exhibition, made up of paintings of objects, figures, interiors and exteriors, is bound together by its use of colours reminiscent of the palazzo and the Brescian landscape, a wild surrealism and women who exist – full of freedom – in backdrops evoking of a forest or a dusky night sky. Making a dialogue with the Northern Italian region – in both its landscape and art history – the artists on this residency have adopt the town’s motifs and palette to produce emotive and engaging work. Lydia Blakeley, often looking to fashions, foods or objects imbued in a quintessential British cultural identity for her paintings, has whilst on residency been responding to the Italian domestic environment. She says: “I have been looking at 18th century majolica porcelain curiosities and objects, a technique initially created during the Italian Renaissance, which was refined over the centuries to help improve the intensity of colours.” [...] @katy.hessel Photos @petro_gilberti