Felstead Art is pleased to present Lilia Orlova-Holmes: Panta Rhei, an exhibition bringing together a selected group of paintings that explore the continual transformation of nature. Taking its title from Heraclitus’ enduring aphorism that ‘everything flows’, the exhibition considers landscape as a living continuum of growth, colour, light, memory, and seasonal change...
31ST APRIL 2026 - 18TH SEPTEMBER 2026
PRIVATE VIEW 30TH JULY 2026
FELSTEAD ART | THREADNEEDLE
60 THREADNEEDLE STREET, LONDON, EC2R 8HP
Felstead Art is pleased to present Lilia Orlova-
Holmes: Panta Rhei, an exhibition bringing together a
selected group of paintings that explore the continual
transformation of nature. Taking its title from Heraclitus’
enduring aphorism that ‘everything flows’, the
exhibition considers landscape as a living continuum of
growth, colour, light, and seasonal change.
Orlova-Holmes presents nature as an ever-changing
environment, experienced through sensation as much
as observation. Gardens, ponds, flowering plants, and
trees emerge from layered surfaces where forms
dissolve and reappear. Familiar imagery remains
recognisable while existing between representation
and abstraction, reflecting the fluidity of the natural
world.
Rather than describing nature with documentary
precision, each painting emerges through a dialogue
between observation, gesture, and material. Forms
are continually adjusted, colours accumulate through
successive layers, and traces of earlier decisions remain
visible within the painted surface. Orlova-Holmes
adopts nature’s processes, allowing her work to evolve
through transformation in much the same way that
rivers continue to move, seasons unfold into one
another, and every landscape is shaped by an endless
cycle of growth, decay, and renewal.
In Panta Rhei, this continual state of becoming defines
Orlova-Holmes’ approach to painting, where the
process of making becomes inseparable from the
rhythms of the natural world itself. Her paintings
embrace a unfolding process, expressing a painterly
language that mirrors nature’s rhythms and reminds
us that both landscape and painting remain acts of
perpetual transformation that never entirely settle.
Lilia Orlova-Holmes: Panta Rhei is organised by Felstead Art
and curated by Michael Wormack.
Specialising in modern and contemporary art and prints,
Felstead Art works with both British and international
artists, maintaining a particular focus on East London.
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