Magdalena Morey is a contemporary painter whose practice sits at the boundary between figurative expression and abstract mark-making — a territory she navigates with the confidence of an artist who has found her own visual language and knows precisely what she wants to do with it.
Her surfaces are built through sustained layering — paint applied, worked, and reworked until the final image carries the physical record of its making. The tonal contrasts are bold, the mark-making intuitive but never arbitrary, the compositions structurally resolved in a way that gives her most energetic passages a sense of underlying order. The result is painting that is simultaneously immediate and considered — works that announce themselves quickly and then reward the longer looking that all good painting invites.
Her figurative works explore emotion, identity, and human presence through the specific means of colour and form rather than through narrative or illustration. Her landscape works — the Waterlilies series in particular, which enters into direct dialogue with one of the most studied bodies of work in Western art history — demonstrate an ambition that goes beyond the decorative, a willingness to measure herself against significant precedent and find her own answer.
Her Rising Light series and Watching the Quiet Shore works bring the same painterly intelligence to the coastal and atmospheric landscape — light, water, and the specific quality of a particular hour rendered through a visual language that is entirely her own.
Available through Creed Gallery, Ascot, for collectors across Berkshire, Sunningdale, Wentworth, Surrey, and London.
