ESSENCE

Following a critically acclaimed show at the Venice Biennale 2022, the mother and son duo of Toma and Ik Stenko come to London for their first joint UK exhibition.

For Toma Stenko, colour denotes the essence of everything - of love, of being. It is the prism through which she perceives the world, searching for the best in everyone and everything. The mother's influence on her son is unmistakable. Both share a unique creative energy expressed in vibrant colours. As the former's paintings become more abstract, the latter introduces line drawings of flowers to his. Prepare for an uplifting explosion of love.

The exhibition - which includes works created in the last couple of years between studios in Georgia, Russia, London and Dubai - is presented and curated by Katrine Levin Galleries, a destination to extraordinary contemporary art from places less explored.

Toma Stenko (b. 1979, Georgia) is an award-winning artist, film director and fashion designer who holds a BA and an MA from Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London. Exhibited internationally including as part of the Venice Biennale 2022 and awarded a Certificate of Achievement at the Qatar International Art Festival 2022, her paintings are held in collections in New York, London, Paris, Doha and Dubai.

Ik Stenko (b. 2013, London) has been painting since he was 2 – starting with his parents’ business documents and his mother’s white dresses and progressing to both abstracts and figure drawings on canvas from around age 6. Now 11 years old, he continues to colour the world around him with much skill and infinite imagination.

Host or Publisher Katrine Levin Galleries