Taylor Galleries presents Flowers Inside the Fire, a new exhibition by Regine Bartschdeveloped in response to real-time footage of contemporary warfare and the artist’s profound sorrow at the inhumanity of military oppression.

Lunchtime Artist’s Talk, Friday 6 March, 1-1:30

Reflecting on suffering as a universal human condition, Bartsch places large-scale devastation alongside the quieter emotional conflicts of everyday life.

At the heart of the exhibition are blooming flowers, which act as emblems of resilience, resistance, and renewal. They express the artist’s conviction that as well as humanity’s capacity for cruelty exists an innate potential for love, kindness, and moral integrity, and affirm a faith in an immutable cosmic good capable of bringing beauty out of brokenness.

Working in mixed media on paper and canvas, Bartsch builds complex, layered surfaces using mulberry washi collage, which are cut, torn, painted, and printed. Beneath distorted digital imagery of devastated infrastructure lie hidden deities and symbolic figures traced from Tibetan Thangkas, alongside angels, ruins, children, animals, and woven panels charting a movement from darkness to light.

Flowers Inside the Fire offers a powerful meditation on destruction and hope, asserting the possibility of resilience and renewal amid fracture and loss.