About

Confluence brings together three London-based artists working in black and white, in response to The Thames and their explorations of the river. All three artists have a particularly strong connection with water and it has been an important ongoing theme in their work.

Born and raised in Canada, Liz Charsley-Jory moved to London to pursue a career in theatre. For many years, she made props and scenic elements for lots of West End shows – CATS, Phantom of the Opera, Aspects of Love, Miss Saigon, among others – before deciding to focus on drawing.
Liz enjoys kayaking in Canada and on the Thames but mostly walks, runs and cycles around the city, on the way collecting ideas for her drawings, taking inspiration from the bits of nature she finds, whether it be weeds and wildflowers on the roadside or views across the river.
“My drawings reflect a need to escape the hectic pace of city life and to make time for contemplation of the natural world. I tend to wander off the trail, seeking out the verges of parks, forests, riversides and beaches to find areas that interest me. My compositions are devoid of intrusive figures, enticing the viewer in, offering a quiet space for escape, detachment from the mundane world, and suspension from the passage of time.” – Liz Charsley-Jory

Paul Debois creates emotive Fine Art photographs of people and places, inspired by his walks through the landscape in London and further afield. He is highly skilled in a wide range of photographic approaches including digital and analogue photography (in the studio and on location) and the fast processing and delivery of digital material using software such as Photoshop and Lightroom. Paul is also interested in traditional methods: he has extensive darkroom experience and explores printing and processing in colour and black and white, alongside older techniques such as kallitype and photogravure. Paul’s other interests include walking and cycling and he is a keen rower, racing for Putney Town Rowing Club.

Caroline Underwood is inspired by the meditative and restorative potential of time spent being in nature. She is interested in “exploring ways to represent the elements, light and darkness, space and time.” Employing a diverse range of techniques across the various disciplines of drawing, painting, printmaking and digital media, her studio practice contrasts and combines traditional and experimental processes. Caroline is interested in being outdoors: walking, running and also sailing – she races a classic X One Design in the Solent. Her responses to landscapes, buildings, moments and memories are often large in scale and are developed in series or as installations, representing the way she experiences her environment:
“I’m interested not just in looking at the landscape, but moving through it, being in it.” – Caroline Underwood.