Immanuel Adelowo

“My art focuses on landscapes. Usually the artworks are of cities, forests or seascapes. Each painting is like going into a world and exploring. Some of the imagery is imagined; sometimes I use references from photos of my own travels with my mum. I’ve recently travelled to Crete, Portugal, Turkey and Spain.

Recently I’ve been working with Autograph Gallery and Camden Arts Centre, planning sessions and themed workshops about space, archaeology, hieroglyphs, the arctic, the desert, safaris, oases, for SEN children and their families as well as SEN primary schools.

I have also curated an exhibition at Studio Voltaire. Into the Bliss was a curation that me and James came up with that reflects our style of work as a studio group, which is fine arts, representational and abstract. The cave themed exhibition idea was inspired by my cave painting. I had an idea about the water dripping from the cave and the stalagmites, inspired by World of Warcraft and a trip to the Algarve in Portugal where I visited a cave on a speedboat. I wanted the exhibition to be more exciting, to have a calm atmosphere as a space that people could interact with. In my research for the exhibition, I enjoyed going to Tate Britain to see Ithell Colquhoun and ActionSpace artist Nnena Kalu’s work, creating a 3d model of the space to present to Studio Voltaire’s curatorial team, visiting the space and selecting the work to reflect on the cave scene. I liked making the panels for the cave space and leading the others to paint them.

In 2025, for Paint Live at Wandsworth Arts Fringe, I painted a large seascape where I was in the middle between ActionSpace artists Robin and Derek, and there were cameras livestreaming us. It felt the same as when I was working in the studio, the difference was doing the announcement for the stages of Paint Live and that it was broadcast across London. I enjoyed the experience and was completely focused on the painting. I usually paint on a smaller scale, so it was more or less me expanding what I could already do to a bigger scale.”
Immanuel Adelowo

“Immanuel often paints open spaces that contain intricate domestic details. This produces intriguing, surreal contrasts, like a small table sat in a vast mountainous landscape, or a tray of drinks offered up in a desert. The movement of the sea, caves and the horizon are repeated motifs. His work invites us to think about what is seen and what is remembered, creating a world where an atmosphere of strangeness houses everyday objects.”
Louis Caseley, Artist Facilitator