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drawing slow motion explosions of dirt

Phoebe Cope, Daisy Millner, Mary Millner

Regent’s Park Gallery, London

26 October/1st November 2026

PRIVATE VIEW 27 October Tues 6-8:30 pm

The theme of Forests brings together a selection of works by three

artists who use nature as a means of expression and a space for

experimentation. During the week there will be two free drawing

workshops in the gallery as part of The Big Draw Festival.

Daisy Millner is a visual artist living in London. Her imagined

landscapes are a collage of events drawn from film, photographs and

sketches from life, finding romance in the everyday. She uses a lot of

red and blue, inspired by the ‘first look’ at nature as seen in

medieval decorative arts. The pictures here evolved from drawing in

Sherwood Forest with Mary Millner, where together they sketched oak

trees as old as 800 and 1,100 years, marvelling at their presence

today. Daisy is interested in their anthropomophic shapes and imagined

a dance through the decades.

Phoebe Cope is an Irish painter living in the Scottish Borders. Her

landscapes contain the full Earth story: drawing from the land through

the seasons, she fuses memory and direct observation with

literary sources to capture organic patterns; skilfully aligning eye,

hand and heart. Through expressive technique, in painting drawing and

sculpture, she celebrates the world's inherent beauty, passionately

urging viewers to cherish and reimagine the diversity surrounding us.

Mary Millner experiences Sherwood Forest as a magnetic attraction.

Arguably the most famous ancient landscape in the world, Sherwood holds

clues to the past, witnesses like the spectral Major Oak.On frequent

trips to Sherwood and visits to the archives, including the library of

Cecil Sharp House, Mary has drawn her own mythology and presents it now

at Vert. Mary (and Etienne’s) model for a statue of Ada Lovelace will

be loaned to Lord Byron’s Sherwood house Newstead Abbey in 2027.

For more information:

phoebecope@gmail.com, mary.millner@gmail.com or daisymillner@hotmail.com

Regents Park Gallery, 17 Princess Road, London NW1 8JR (10:00-19:00 h daily)

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