Harriet Links Soft Focus

10th April – 3rd May

Soft Focus is a body of work that explores memory, emotion, and identity through imagined landscapes. These paintings translate fragments of personal history into expansive terrains. These are not depictions of specific locations, but psychological spaces shaped by recollection, feeling, and the slow movement of time.

The artist uses imagined landscapes as a way to think through identity as something unstable and continually forming. Mountains and mist emerge, dissolve, and reappear within fields of green. Horizons blur, passages deepen into shadow, and forms shift between solidity and disappearance. The terrain becomes a metaphor for becoming — something shaped gradually through pressure, erosion, and accumulation.

These paintings are quiet, imagined worlds — places where stillness can exist. They hold space for reflection, but also for pause and drift. The paintings expect little, yet they offer something increasingly rare: a place of calm, softness, and quiet attention.

Image: Harriet Links, The World in Soft Focus, Oil and wax pencil on linen, 130 x 180 cm, 2026