Peacock & Ivory

J/M Gallery is pleased to present a joint exhibition by British artists Hannah Ivory Baker and Sam Peacock, bringing together two bold contemporary practices that explore landscape, texture, and the physicality of paint. Baker’s expressive oil paintings capture the movement of the natural world, sweeping horizons, shifting weather, and living botanical forms. Her palette and mark-making evoke a sense of place that is both intimate and expansive. Peacock’s mixed-media works, created on steel and shaped through flame and chemical reaction, offer a darker, industrial counterpoint. His surfaces suggest forged landscapes; raw, dramatic, and elemental. Together, these works create a compelling visual dialogue between fluid natural energy and industrial force.

Hannah Ivory Baker is a British contemporary painter whose work explores the shifting energies of landscape, seascape, and flora. Working primarily in oils with palette knives and broad brushes, she builds layered surfaces that capture movement, texture, and atmosphere. Her paintings sit between abstraction and observation, transforming familiar environments into places of emotional resonance rather than literal depiction.

Self-taught and based in North London, Baker has developed a distinctive practice rooted in physicality and instinctive mark-making. Her recent still life and hedgerow works reflect her interest in the quiet vitality found within overlooked natural spaces. Baker exhibits regularly across the UK, with solo and group shows including Highgate Contemporary Art, Ad Lib Gallery, David Simon Contemporary, White Space Art and the Affordable Art Fair. Her work is held in private collections nationally and internationally, and she continues to explore the tension between stillness and motion within the natural world.

Sam Peacock is a British contemporary artist known for his distinctive mixed-media paintings on steel. His practice combines fire, oils, coffee, and corrosive elements to create works that echo industrial landscapes, geology, and terrain shaped by force. Peacock’s surfaces are built through processes of burning, layering, and chemical reaction, resulting in rich, tactile works with dramatic tonal depth and textural complexity.

Born in the Midlands and now based in the UK, Peacock has exhibited extensively in galleries across London and the UK, and his work is held in private and corporate collections internationally. His practice investigates the tension between destruction and creation, exploring how landscapes are forged, physically, materially, and psychologically. Peacock’s bold, process-driven works challenge conventional notions of painting, transforming steel into vibrant, atmospheric surfaces that hold both violence and beauty.