Cavaliero Finn presents "the land and the Garden"

British Art Fair, Stand 48, Saatchi Gallery, London, SW3 4RY

September 25th - 28th 2025

Inspired by the title of the book, "The Land and The Garden" by Vita Sackville-West, Cavaliero Finn presents a group of works that embody just that at this year's British Art Fair which takes place at the Saatchi Gallery from Thursday 25th to Sunday 28th September 2025. In a time of uncertainty and anxiety about the world, the gallery shows a collection of artworks that exude hope and joy - as Vita Sackville-West said herself, "…No gardener would be a gardener if he did not live in hope."

"The Land and the Garden" will feature work by contemporary artists, Annie Turner, Cecilia Moore, David Edmond, Kate Sherman and Simon Gaiger. Find out more about each artist below or view The Land and the Garden exhibition page on our website.

British Art Fair Opening Hours
Collectors' Preview, Thursday 25 September, 11am- 9pm
Friday 26 September, 11am - 9pm
Saturday 27 September, 11am - 7pm
Sunday 28 September, 11am - 5pm

Artist Spotlight

Kate Sherman's paintings originate from photographs. This photographic source is important because the paintings capture a reflective notion of memory, of the emotional distance between a real landscape and a photograph, between experience and longing. In Kate's latest work, we are presented with a series of lone figures depicted in the landscape. The introudcution of figures in her paintings is a new development for Kate. Talking about the work ahead of the British Art Fair, she said: “I'm drawn to certain figures in photographs that have some ambiguity about them, they are often familiar to me (because of family connection) and they have a poetic quality about them that sits somewhere between dreamlike and reality.

"The figures I paint tend to be quite realistic, while the rest of the painting is often more loosely worked, departing from the original photo, and sometimes with the background altered or reimagined. The source photo for ‘Night Garden’ for example, was a bright sunlit scene, but it becomes more ambiguous and poignant with the figure spotlit against a dark inky background, one part photo-real, the other drippy and gestural. With all my work, I think the abstract or material values are what holds the paintings together - the tones, colours, shapes; I ask myself, does it work if I half-close my eyes? I’m looking to create a tension between surface and image, abstraction and realism but I’m also aiming to make works that resonate in an emotional way, allowing space for a narrative, and hopefully enabling connection with the viewer."

Originally from the Jurassic Coast in Dorset, Kate now lives and works in Sussex. Kate completed a BA Hons Degree in Fine Art at Birmingham University. Kate has exhibited widely, including in juried exhibitions ING Discerning Eye (2019, 2020, 2023), Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (2015, 2018, 2024), Wells Art Contemporary (2018), and Figurative Art Now (2021).

David Edmondhas painted a series of works inspired by his South London Garden. Capturing hedgerows, vibrant bushes and wild flowers, David paints large canvases filled with colour and abundance. These layered paintings, combine his distinctive style of loose abstract areas with more detailed, rigid areas of figuration. They suggest a garden that extends beyond the canvas.

In 'The Gardener' (featured below), David has reinterpreted Cezanne's Gardener, presenting him in a contemporary garden context, his distinctive hat a nod to these famous portraits of Vallier which were at the time, a very significant influence on the development of Cubism. David combines different techniques, abstraction and figuration, loose dripping paint makes up his shirt, while the foreground is divided up by the more rigid planes of the garden stakes. Like his street paintings, which regularly feature in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibitions, David presents interesting cropped views, drawing our eye to small beautiful details that could normally go unnoticed.

David has had work selected for several important exhibitions including, The Columbia Threadneedle Prize, Mall Gallery, 2018, the Lynn Painter Stainer Prize, Mall Gallery, 2017, Discerning Eye, Mall Gallery, 2016, Arcade Fine Arts, 2016, Turps - Art Bermondsey Project Space, 2016, Clifford Chance Annual Pride Art Exhibition, 2015, and numerous Royal Academy Summer Exhibitions, most recently in 2024 and 2025. David's work has been published in Michael Petry's book 'Nature Morte' for Thames and Hudson.

Loewe Craft Prize Finalist, Annie Turner is a British ceramic artist from Suffolk, whose art is very closely linked with the river Deben and its surrounding environment where she grew up. Annie’s sculpture is imprinted with the river Deben’s past and present, the cycles of nature and the interaction of man. These are, as she puts it ‘objects that trigger the memory’, as much collective memory as personal recollection. These encrusted forms – families of Ladders, Sinkers, Drifters, Sluices and so on – reveal the particular texture and weather of this water land the character of its beds and inlets, the colour of its reflected sky. The richly layered work, impressed with the fragments and detritus Annie has found on innumerable walks, encapsulate so much about the broader landscape – a tidal geography concentrated and made intimate.

Annie Turner studied under Eduardo Paolozzi at the Royal College of Art in the eighties and in 2019 she was shortlisted for the Loewe Craft Prize with an exhibition in Japan. Her ceramic sculptures can be found in the permanent collections of the V&A, the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Shiply Art Gallery, Gateshead, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, The York Museum, Yorkshire, Gardiner Museum, Toronto, Canada and the Loewe Foundation.

The National Botanical Gardens in Ireland has provided much inspiration for metal artist Cecilia Moore who lives and works in Dublin. Combining 'raising' - an ancient hammering technique used by silversmiths, with patination, Cecilia creates colourful, playful sculptures in a range of metals including copper, bronze, copper-based alloys and silver, often working with found objects and used metal parts. Little Hollyhock (featured above) is from her Biomorph series, made from copper, sheet bronze, patina and paint. Weighted inside, the sculpture rocks creating movement and capturing the transient delicacy of the flower that needs no watering. Cecilia's skill is transforming hard materials into a sculpture that evokes the softness and fragility of a flower.

Cecilia’s work has been selected for numerous national and international exhibitions. It can be found in private collections and the following public collections; V&A, London, National Museum of Ireland, State Collection of Ireland, National Irish Visual Arts Library and Ulster Museum. She has completed several public art commissions and been selected for Design and Crafts Council of Ireland’s “Critical Selection” from 2017- 2022.

Cecilia holds a Masters and a First Class Honours Degree in Metal Design from the National College of Art and Design in Dublin. Previously she graduated in silversmithing from Birmingham School of Jewellery, going on to study Dinanderie in Paris for a year, and two years at the Firestation Studios in Dublin studying sculptural techniques.

In 2018 Cecilia won the Golden Fleece Award a major national prize for visual artists in Ireland; in 2016 she won the Royal Dublin Society Award for Silversmithing and Metalwork; and a Thomas Dammann Jnr. Memorial Trust Award for travel and research.

Working and living on a large farm in the ancient and post-industrial landscapes of Wales, the landscape very much informs Simon Gaiger's work. His sculptures are simultaneously human and landscape, narrative and abstract - the energy of their forms and the universality of their themes give them their resonance. Working in wood and metal, he creates sculptures made from ancient farm machinery, pulled from the hedgerows and reinvented into new narratives with a title that often gives a hint to its former life. Influences from a childhood in Sudan, Uganda and the South Pacific can be found in his work, as well as a love of mythology and his knowledge gathered from time spent working as a shipwright's assistant and shepherd in the Falklands, and training in landscape construction.

Simon's work has been a regular feature of Cavaliero Finn's exhibitions over the years and was on show over the summer in FROM NATURE - the inaugural exhibition at Thorns Gallery run by Jonathan Reed and Graeme Black in Yorkshire. His work can be found in private collections around the world.

We look forward to seeing you at the British Art Fair, in the meantime you can check out the full collection of artworks available at the fair on our The Land and the Garden exhibition page on our website.

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