Cecily Brown Turns Pastoral Visions Into Painterly Chaos in Her London Museum Debut

British painter Cecily Brown is having her London museum debut with the exhibition “Cecily Brown: Picture Making” at Serpentine South in Kensington Gardens. The show brings together new works inspired by Brown’s memories of pastoral England—filtered through children’s book and puzzle imagery—with earlier paintings dating back to 2001, totaling 32 paintings and 23 drawings. A central motif in the new “nature walk” paintings is a log over a stream, repeatedly reworked to blur figuration and abstraction; one highlighted work is “Nature Walk with Paranoia” (2024). Brown also includes large recent canvases such as “A Round Robin” (2023–24) and describes her aim as creating a feeling of something almost remembered but not fully grasped.

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