Gilles Gorriti was a distinctive voice in modern painting, emerging from a rich artistic heritage. The son of the celebrated painter Paul Aïzpiri, Gilles developed an early connection to the arts and, at just seventeen, held his first solo exhibition at Galerie Morval, marking the beginning of his presence in the art world. He later joined the esteemed Salon d’Automne, thus becoming part of what many consider to be the last generation of the modernist School of Paris.

This exhibition features Gorriti’s still lifes and interior scenes in counterpoint to his luminous landscapes and city scenes. The former reveal an intimate and contemplative dimension of his work, while the latter allowed Gorriti to expand his horizons and play with color and light as signifiers of space and atmosphere. In Gorriti’s interiors, floral arrangements, Japanese fans, and studio compositions are rendered with luminous color, balancing a quiet exploratory process with a raw and powerful finish. These works showcase Gorriti’s ability to transform everyday subjects into meditations, as Gorriti regarded each element as a single painting to be fitted with the other “paintings” in pursuit of the overall balance and beauty of the composition. These works of art are thus an invitation to delve into a deeper view that transcends the subject. Upon spending time with one of these paintings, one inevitably realizes that, to Gorriti, representing the world around him was merely an excuse; these are invitations to join him and revel in the endless poetry of abstraction.

In contrast, his views of Paris, New York, and Venice depict animated boulevards, café terraces, and atmospheric corners from of each city. In these brilliant paintings, Gorriti captured the memory, the thought, of a place with all its rhythm, whether it be a quiet and contemplative view of Venice or a bustling and vibrant street scene in New York. Gorriti gifts the viewer a powerful duality: on one hand, the experience of the place itself; on the other, an aesthetic creation that sings its beauty in a never-ending melody of color.

We invite you to visit Findlay Galleries in Palm Beach to experience our collection of works by Gorriti, the quintessential modernist, now on view.

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Findlay Galleries is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new paintings by Amy Magee (b. 1997), a British artist whose work brings together intuition, landscape, and art-historical memory. Drawing inspiration from the landscapes and artistic heritage of the South of France, Magee reinterprets classical principles of composition and light through the language of contemporary abstraction, creating a dialogue between place, tradition, and expression.

After relocating from an urban environment to the luminous stillness of Provence, Magee’s palette and sensibility shifted markedly. Engaging with the European tradition of trompe l’œil, she reimagines the language of landscape—gesture, pigment, and perspective—through sweeping contrasts and spatial rhythms. Her process begins with brief encounters with classical paintings, later reconstructed through intuition, resulting in compositions where passages of detail dissolve into raw, tactile paint. Petal-like forms, atmospheric veils, and gestural flourishes drift across imagined terrains, creating works that function as visual memories—fleeting experiences slowed into paint.

Magee holds a BSc in Psychology from the University of Exeter and completed a residency at the New York School of Visual Arts; her work has been exhibited in London, New York, and Florence and is held in private collections worldwide.

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Belynda Henry

Findlay Galleries is pleased to present Living Palette, a major exhibition of new paintings by the distinguished Australian artist Belynda Henry. This presentation marks her most extensive showing in the United States to date and her fourth solo exhibition with the gallery, following acclaimed presentations in Palm Beach and New York.

Widely recognized as one of Australia’s leading contemporary landscape painters and a multiple finalist for both the Wynne and Archibald Prizes, Henry brings to her art a refined synthesis of observation and emotion. Living and working in a lush valley north of Sydney, she draws continual inspiration from the natural world—the subtle shifts of light, the rhythms of the seasons, and the quiet resonance of the landscape.

Henry employs a distinctive technique that combines oil and wax, built up in multiple layers to create surfaces of remarkable depth and tactility. The result is a body of work with an unmistakably earthy presence. Her palette of soft pastels, enlivened by luminous bursts of color, conveys both serenity and vitality. Through her loose, layered application, Henry achieves a graceful interplay between abstraction and landscape, evoking movement, distance, and the passage of time.

In Living Palette, Henry deepens her exploration of the dialogue between abstraction and the natural world. Her process begins outdoors, through plein-air observation, and evolves in the studio, where memory, emotion, and intuition re-imagine what she has seen. The result is an expressive language of color and form that transcends depiction, transforming direct experience into atmosphere.

Each painting embodies Henry’s sense of happiness and wonder—qualities that are felt rather than declared. The vitality within her work emerges organically from her engagement with nature and from her belief that painting is a living conversation between artist, subject, and viewer.

To live with these paintings is to share in that vitality. Their presence fills a space with quiet energy, inviting reflection and renewal. Joy and beauty here are not static ideals, but ever-shifting forces—alive in color, texture, and the spirit that shaped them.

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