about

bio

London-based artist Flora Butler graduated with a 1st Class Degree from The University of the Arts London in 2018. She has since founded the community-focused publishing company The Mindful Editions, works with charity Chayn to facilitate a series of creative workshops for survivors of gender-based violence and continues to develop her painting practice. Butler’s work focuses on the intricate patterns present in nature and highlights their beauty. Inspired by images of cells from different mushrooms and plants, her paintings play with shape and texture, using different mediums to create depth and form. She has had pieces exhibited in galleries across the UK, taken part in numerous group shows, and held her first solo show, Aria, in Hackney at the start of 2022.

artist’s statement

When the importance of the natural world is at the forefront of our minds, Butler’s work focuses on the intricate patterns present in nature and highlights their beauty. Inspired by highly magnified images of endangered plants and fungi or changing natural landscapes, her paintings play with shape and texture, using different mediums to create depth and form. By focusing on plants and landscapes threatened by climate change and landscapes that are shifting with rising sea levels, she uses each piece to start a conversation about the natural world and the vital role we must play in protecting it.

exhibitions

2024

January-February - Everything is Connected in Life: Art and Wellbeing, group show at the Gerald Moore Gallery in London

2023

July - For Its Own Joy, group show at Unit 3 in London

March—April - A Slash of Blue, group show at the Gerald Moore Gallery in London

2022

May - Work exhibited at the launch event for gender-based violence charity Chayn’s podcast Less than 2% in London

March - Four works in a group show at Glimpse 53 Gallery, Kent

February - Solo show, Aria, at MKII Gallery, London

2018

Works in a joint show at ARC Gallery, London

publications

2023

Piece featured in British Vogue.

2022

Five pieces of work featured in the book The Mindful Editions 02, a piece on emerging voices in the painting and 3D art world by the independent publisher The Mindful Editions.

The sea longs for respect