Sacha Jafri at Ryder Street Gallery December 2-17

"The spirit of youth suffuses Jafri’s latest collection: boundless, restless, athletic energy, frenzy, zeal, and an obvious enjoyment of paint. It is refreshing to find a young artist today concentrating on painting... striving to stir the viewer’s imagination and feelings." Acclaimed art critic Terrance Rodrigues

Talented hip young British painter, Sacha Jafri will be exhibiting his latest collection of work entitled "The Investigative Journey – Reconstructing The Deconstructed" at The Ryder Street Gallery, St James's from December 2nd - 17th 2004.

Hailed by the BBC London News as "The Renaissance man set to seduce us away from conceptual art with his passion for painting", Sacha, a graduate of Fine Arts from the Ruskin, Oxford University has achieved widespread recognition amongst art critics and buyers alike. Collectors of his work include A-list celebrities such as Kevin Spacey, and Sadie Frost, private individuals such as Phillip Green, Bill Gates and Prince Albert of Monaco, corporates and numerous Royal collections

"The Investigative Journey – Reconstructing The Deconstructed" paints a picture of Sacha’s unique exploration to his own subconscious. "My pieces are the physical result of my own investigative journey; when I start to paint I never really know where it is going to lead me, I just sort of feel my way until the painting starts to speak to me". In this way Sacha encourages the viewer to take their own investigative journey into his pieces and as a result form their own relationships and interpretation of them. To this end Sacha’s references come not only from leading artists such as Pollock and Kadinsky, writers such as Kafka and Burroughs but also from film makers such as Burton, Mendez and Kubrick.

For Sacha, this latest collection is also "about the sheer enjoyment of paint and the process in which it can be channelled to create harmonies of colour, rhythm and expression". It juxtaposes between the quasi-abstract and the almost entirely figurative, between premeditated "drip paintings" and explorations of Kafka-esque narratives.

The Investigative Journey precedes an exciting year ahead for Sacha Jafri in 2005. Sacha has not only been invited to exhibit his work at the Guggenheim, New York, but he will also be embarking on a global tour - “Jafri Meets Warhol” whereby Sacha’s work will be exhibited alongside a collection of recently discovered Andy Warhols.

For further information about The Investigative Journey exhibition at Ryder Street or on the "Jafri Meets Warhol" global tour please contact Sara Vaughan on 0207 243 9999