This June, Funny Weather Gallery presents its inaugural exhibition set within a forest landscape in Hampshire.
Conceived as a living, evolving environment, the forest becomes an archive of emotional states, where each clearing holds a fragment of human experience. The exhibition unfolds through four interconnected conditions: friendship, love, loss, and loneliness. These are not presented as fixed themes, but as a continuous cycle that mirrors both human relationships and the seasonal rhythms of the forest.
Each emotional state is situated within a different area of the landscape, allowing visitors to move between them freely. There is no prescribed route. Works are encountered gradually, hidden among trees, revealed through light, or discovered by chance. This structure encourages a departure from traditional modes of viewing art, replacing the neutrality of the gallery with an experience shaped by movement, intuition, and environment. At the core of the exhibition is a return to both material and mindset.
Many works are made from natural and elemental materials such as clay, wood, bronze, and organic pigments. By placing them within the forest, they are returned to their source, existing in direct dialogue with the environment. This process is closely tied to a childlike state of wonder, where making becomesexploratory and instinctive, and where materials are approached with curiosity rather than
control.
This sense of wonder extends to the viewing experience. The exhibition is not fixed, but constantly shifting. Different times of day and changing weather conditions alter how the works are seen, felt, and understood. Morning light, rain, wind, or dusk each reshape the landscape, meaning no two visits are the same. The forest itself becomes an active participant, transforming the exhibition over time.
Positioned as an escape from the pace and structure of urban life, the exhibition invites visitors into a forest filled with wonder. It offers a space to slow down, reflect, and reconnect, not only with nature, but with imagination and emotional memory. Rooted in the spirit of childhood storytelling, the exhibition resists the idea that art must be approached with seriousness. Instead, it encourages openness, play, and a willingness to be transported.
Like entering another world, visitors step into a space where logic softens and imagination takes hold, where emotional states become tangible, and where art is encountered through feeling as much as through sight.
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