MUSE GALLERY: LUKE FOREMAN – “THE FEMININE SEA” 10-27 April 2025. 269 Portobello Road. W11 1LR info@themuseat269.com www.themuseat269londonCheck opening times before you travel. Closest tube – Ladbroke Grove. Also quite close to Notting Hill tube  and a wide network of buses.

Using a purpose made printer for this photographic project, artistically composed (lighting/settings/form) hand printed  images of items coming from the sea are displayed in black and white as oak framed  artworks created by the talented photographic artist, Luke Foreman. Subject matter includes shells, octopuses, and other objects related to the marine theme. All artworks at the exhibition are Hand Printed on Ilford Warm Tone FB Gelatin Paper. Double Fixed for Archival life. Photographed on various sizes of Plate Film Ilford FP4.

Why “The Feminine Sea” as an exhibition title? – in times gone by the sea has been referred to as “she” and personified as a goddess with The Greeks in particular believing the legend of Aphrodite having sprung from the sea. In certain languages, certainly in latin based ones, the sea is coined as a feminine noun.

The photographic artist Luke Foreman has worked in celebrity portraiture, beauty and fashion and one of his courses led him to graduate with distinction at The London College of Printing. Luke has worked in London, New York, Miami, Los Angeles, Paris, Cape Town, Germany, France, The Netherlands and Denmark and throughout the Far East. His idea and conception for this photographic project was  conceived in Cape Town where he “regularly encountered the ocean” through fashion photography projects. He also told me when I met him that he is a big fan of and a regular participant in the sport of surfing. He views the sea (and oceans) as “life giving, fertile, powerful, sensual, ever changing and mysterious”.  For more information go and view the exhibition and pick up the printed matter there about his show with more detail therein! ENJOY

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