A South Cumbrian painter is exhibiting some of her most ambitious work yet as part of a global art event.
Abstract landscape painter Eva Ullrich will unveil her show, By Osmosis, later this month as part of the Visual Artists Association’s OpenSpaces 2025 art trail.
The exhibition will showcase a collection of Eva’s paintings in a former hay barn located next door to her studio in Skelsmergh, near Kendal.
Eva is an abstract landscape painter who studied at The Glasgow School of Art and who has shown her works in galleries across the UK, as well as Europe, Asia and the United States.
She lived and worked in Bristol for six years before returning home to Cumbria where she continues to paint and is now running artists’ residencies.
Works on display will comprise a selection of recent paintings, including some of her most ambitious and largest pieces to date.
The OpenSpaces 2025 project will involve artists from across the world exhibiting their work in unusual and everyday spaces.
Eva has chosen to temporarily transform the barn at the family home where she grew up into an exhibition space for contemporary art in an unexpected rural context.
She said: “The experience of landscape has always been a starting point for my work.
“I have travelled to remote locations in Arctic Norway and Iceland in search of the particular qualities of light that occur there, but more recently I’ve realised that the cumbrian countryside around me always finds its way into my imagery whether I’m aware of it or not.
“I am excited at the prospect of giving this traditional building a new role to exhibit my art in the place where I absorbed some of my earliest creative influences.”
The exhibition will be open daily at Red Bank Farm, Skelsmergh, Kendal, LA8 9AQ, from October 18 to November 9, from 11am to 5pm, or by appointment outside these hours.
Visitors will also have the opportunity to see Eva’s working studio.
People are invited to attend an opening event on October 18 from 2pm, during which Eva will be available to talk about her work and refreshments will be provided.
Both the opening and exhibition are free to attend.
