winter at holland park cafE
A winter art exhibition by Diana Taylor.
Curated by Justin Hibbs.
Running until 20 March 2026
As winter settles across west London, Holland Park Café enters its seasonal chapter with Winter, a new art exhibition by British artist Diana Taylor. Set against the quiet beauty of Holland Park, this exhibition explores memory, time and transformation through layered imagery that blurs the line between the real and the imagined.
About the Exhibition
Winter presents a series of works that exist between past and present, analogue and digital. Taylor’s paintings are built from an extensive personal archive of obsolete books, botanical guides, museum catalogues, pattern kits and geological references — fragments of knowledge collected over decades.
These materials are scanned, enlarged, cropped and reprinted, often intentionally low-resolution, preserving the marks of time, touch and use. The result is a body of work that feels at once ancient and contemporary: delicate yet fractured, precise yet unstable.
Motifs of ruination and renewal recur throughout the exhibition. Images appear, dissolve and re-emerge, reflecting how memory behaves — half-formed, layered, and constantly shifting. Encountered after a walk through Holland Park’s winter gardens, the works begin to mirror the season itself: quiet, incomplete, and deeply atmospheric.
About the ARTIST
Diana Taylor’s multidisciplinary practice spans painting, textiles and print, underpinned by deep research into how images are produced, circulated and understood. Her work draws on fieldwork that includes reading, photographing, sketching and 3D scanning, creating a dialogue between early printed knowledge and contemporary digital processes.
Taylor completed a practice-based PhD with the William Morris Gallery, examining how technology shapes our relationship with the natural world. Her residencies at Kew Gardens, Wakehurst and the Huntington Botanical Gardens in California have further informed her botanical focus, weaving organic forms with digital intervention.
Across her work, time operates on multiple registers, from slow hand-stitching and silk-screen printing to the speed of the digital image, allowing multiple realities to coexist on a single surface.