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The exhibition Fractal Identities curated by Arch. Luca Curci (Founder of LUCA CURCI ARCHITECTS, International ArtExpo and It’s LIQUID Group) and Andrea Chinellato (curator and director of Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi and VENICE ART HOUSE Gallery). The festival’s program will include video art screenings, movies’ projections, live performances and meetings with artists involved.

The venue for Fractal Identities; Venice Art House is a beautiful building with 2 canal side openings in the city of Venice in Cannaregio district. The opening of the event will be on July 15th, 2015, at Venice Art House Gallery, CE Art House Gallery, Cannaregio 1863C-­‐30121 Venice, Italy, starting from 06.00 PM (free entry).

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Paintings from Clare Haxby’s Botanic Garden collection titled, Sunbird, and My Beautiful Ginger Lilies, will be showing in Venice, Italy, Fractal Identities exhibition, from the 15th to the 25th July 2015.

“So here I am in the middle of moving from Singapore to London and have been given this opportunity to visit and exhibit my Art of Singapore in Venice. I am feeling very, very happy about blending my love of travel and art in one trip and bringing my Asia-inspired paintings to Europe.”

“The paintings I am exhibiting are ‘My Beautiful Ginger Lilies’ 122 x 122 cms, acrylic on Canvas ‘Sunbird’ 100 x 100 cms acrylic on canvas.” — Clare

For the past eight years, UK artist Clare has been visiting the Singapore Botanic Gardens, very near her Singapore home. Clare painted the flowers and the structures of a Colonial black and white house and a plantation house historic building in the Botanic Gardens.

Clare was very pleased when The Singapore Botanic Gardens was recently inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site — the first and only tropical botanic gardens on The UNESCO World Heritage List, the first in Asia, and Singapore’s first UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Clare has come to know the Botanic Gardens well, finding the National Orchid Garden and The Ginger Garden most inspirational, choosing “the extravagant sensational flower heads of the Ginger Lilies and the delicate flowers of the Orchids, the national flower of Singapore,” as subjects for her painting.

“The Botanic Gardens in Singapore have been a constant inspiration on my work. I’ve been lucky to live near them and walked there regularly. The gardens are a green oasis in the city of Singapore and a great place to go to reflect,” says Clare Haxby.

“My favourite time to visit the gardens is early morning, when the gentle art of Tai Chi is practiced in the coolest part of the day. I was always drawn to the ginger garden particularly; I adore these flowers with their showy cone-­‐shaped heads atop tall stems. The coral pink colour of them as they unfold is mesmerising and as a plant they have culinary and medicinal qualities throughout Asia. The bud of the ginger lily is used in the Asian dish, Nasi Lemak and Rojak, and medicinally, the flower is used as fever reducing medicine in medicinal folklore,” she explains.

“Sunbirds, part of the hummingbird family, are attracted to the ginger Lilies and are their natural pollinators. My series of ginger lily paintings were launched in Singapore. Some have already sold; one going to a home in Costa Rica, another to England, and another to a Sydney expatriate in Singapore,” Clare says.

“Italy was on my mind this summer…after 8 amazing years in Singapore, I am relocating to England with my family and the promise of a long-awaited Italian holiday was on the cards in between arriving in England and waiting for our container in 6 weeks time to reach London,” she continues.

In Clare Haxby’s Botanic Gardens painting collection is Clare’s largest painting to date, a triptych titled The Botanic Gardens that consists of three canvas panels 122 x 122 centimeters each.

Clare says of her triptych, “I wanted to paint on a larger scale to give the viewer the sense of the wraparound green that is the oasis of these gardens in the tropics. I created the painting so that it is like a walk in the gardens, a sensory experience.”

Visit  Clare Haxby Art Studio page to find out more about Clare’s work.