Xenia Gregoriadis is a Brighton-based painter whose atmospheric abstract works explore memory, emotion and our felt experience of the world around us.

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Her paintings often begin with something that has caught her attention: a photograph, a gesture, a colour or simply the atmosphere of a particular moment. From there she works intuitively through layers of paint, allowing colour, touch and surface to lead the process. Forms appear and disappear, creating works that seem to hover somewhere between landscape, memory and abstraction.

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I first encountered Xenia’s paintings at the University of Brighton Fine Art Painting degree show, where her work immediately stood out to me. I wanted every piece. There is something wonderfully immersive about them: expanses of colour that you can almost swim into, balanced by small marks, interruptions and glimpses of something you feel you might recognise.

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They are paintings that reveal themselves slowly. Dreamlike without being passive, they shift with distance and light and leave enough unresolved that you can bring something of yourself to them. The kind of abstracts you can dream into and live with for a very long time.

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Xenia graduated with First Class Honours in Fine Art Painting from the University of Brighton, following a UAL Foundation Diploma in Art and Design with Distinction at Brighton Metropolitan College. Her work has since been selected for the Jackson’s Art Prize Extended Longlist and featured in the a-n Degree Shows Guide.