Vessel questions the very idea of containment. Exploring the metaphorical idea of humans as fragile containers for spiritual awakening, going beyond the constraints of duality. The decorations stand as quiet witness as they inhabit the threshold between form and void. The tension of inside and outside, suggesting a permeability of boundaries where neither state fully defines and both coexist in fluid exchange.

Paintings on canvas and paper plus a new collection of sacred earth vessels worked with minimal intervention in earth materials, pigments and oxides, to retain their raw immediacy

Sophie Wake is a Devon-based artist whose practice is shaped by meditation and ancient tree tea ceremony, bringing a contemplative, intuitive quality to her work. Drawing on shamanism, rock art and ancient clay forms, she creates instinctive oil and gouache pieces exploring raw human emotion.

Her work has received multiple awards, including selection by Grayson Perry for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, and for the 2025 Exeter Contemporary Open.

Please do join Sophie and ourselves us to celebrate the opening of this luminous exhibition at 5pm-7pm on Saturday 10th January 2026. All very welcome.