Timothy Lai “No Swans” @ Josh Lilley, London

Josh Lilley is proud to present No Swans, an exhibition of new work by Providence based painter Timothy Lai (b. 1987, Kota Bharu, Kelantan, Malaysia). The landscape around Lai’s home has been the chief source of inspiration for this series of paintings executed across the past autumn and winter. Salter Grove Memorial Park conjoins the bluntly named Marsh Island and Rock Island there, two crescent jetties cradling small coves along the Providence River. Each island’s banks rise low out of the water, bordered by boulders and reeds, ensnaring dawn cobwebs and framing views of local waterfowl. Beyond the arcing boundary of the jetties, freight ships chug by on their daily deliveries beneath a low sky. You can see the weather coming…