Tabula Rasa Gallery is pleased to announce its participation in the inaugural edition of Frieze Seoul, opening 2 September in Seoul, Korea. The gallery will feature a solo presentation of the legendary British painter Laetitia Yhap's paintings and drawings.
Laetitia Yhap (b. 1941) is a British painter living in Hastings, Sussex, well-known for her meticulous and bold depiction of the everyday life of fishermen on the fishing coast in Hastings, East England. Graduated from Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts in 1962 and supported by the Leverhulme Research Scholarship, she travelled to Italy for a year in 1962, looking at Renaissance art and architecture before returning to Slade School of Fine Art to do a postgraduate degree from 1963 to 1965. Since 1967, she settled in Hastings and started her most famous series, a series of paintings with irregular shapes that record the everyday life of fishermen along the coastline. Immersing herself in the maritime world day in day out, her works are the tableau vivant that celebrate the fishing tradition of East Hastings, while her unique artistic style marks Yhap's unparalleled importance in British art history. As the curator and art historian of the Tate, Richard Morphet, wrote, 'celebrating both the compulsion of observation and the complex reality of existence, each of these images opens a world and makes it permanently fresh'.