Welcome to the latest Cultivate Three x Three exhibition, the tenth. Once again just three artists sharing our space. There’s more words about the show and the artists involved down under the actual art, we need the art to do the talking before anything else. Please take a look at the art first and then if you feel like it, read the editorial and find those vital links and interact with the three artists via the links at the foot of the page (it is about the links). 

The Three x Three shows are hopefully very simple, three artists invited to share our space, invited to share space with each other.  This time we invited three people who have featured in quite a few of our recent Cultivate group shows, Clara Lemos, Declen Patten and Kirsten Reynolds. Three artists who have been exciting us for a good few years now…

Please do click on an image to enlarge it and to see the whole piece of art, kind of vital that you do that actually, best to click on the first image and then to run the whole slide show. And please do bare in mind our shows are best viewed on a decent sized computer monitor rather than just a small (and somewhat disrespectful) phone. Thank you.

The editorial/Exhibition statement bit…

And that was, we think, the 44th Cultivate on-line exhibition and the 202nd Cultivate exhibition in all (the 203rd will along next week, the 204th the week after).  A big big thanks to anyone and everyone who has taken the time to visit the exhibition, a big big thanks once again to the three artists involved.

This is our latest Three x Three exhibition, the tenth, there’s a touch of background in terms of this series of exhibitions here.

Now we could have gone through every image and given you label details, size, medium, date and the title (and yes titles can be very important), but this really is about giving you a flavour and sending you off (via those links down there) to find out more, it is about you heading to the artist’s website and following them on social media and then hopefully going to see some of this work in the flesh. You don’t need sizes and details today, you just need a taste.

Three x Three (Part Ten) is once again an invitation extended to three artists, Clara Lemos, Declen Patten and Kirsten Reynolds to exhibit together, the show is once again curated by Cultivate founders Emma Harvey and Sean Worrall.

These Three x Three shows are about artists sharing spaces, artists who we think might compliment each other, or who maybe contradict each other, who may or may not be comfortable bedfellows. These shows are about cross pollination, about space and time shared, about three artists who are currently exciting us, this time two rather figurative and one a little more abstract.

The first four Three x Three shows happened during our Vyner Street period, a wall each handed over to an artist in our almost triangular shaped East London corner space, artists such as Ben Fenton, My Dog Sighs, Paula MacArthur, Charlie McFarley, the much missed Ish Sahotay and quite a few more. The last physical Three x Three show happened in 2012, the reviving of the format was well overdue, and yes, with Cultivate now being nomadic this ninth Three x Three show along with all the shows since the fifth one are all happening on line (we expecy the tenth one will as well)

We like on-line shows, we like that they reach out beyond our London bubble, that artists and viewers from all over the land and indeed the globe can take part in our shows, that we can include artists from North Wales or West Yorkshire or Brazil or San Francisco or Manchester as well as artists from Hackney or Camberwell, we like being more than just a London thing. We’re rather enjoying this Spring season of Cultivate on-line exhibitions.

The Artists

Kirsten Reynolds is a rather ambitious rather colourful painter currently to be found in the South of England, she’s rather economical with her words, preferring to let her big paintings and indeed her use of paint do all the talking for her…   

Clara Lemos is from Guimarães, a small town in the north of Portugal, she currently lives and works in the Boston area in the US. she talks of her paintings in terms of Abstract minimalism, it was her minimal use of colour, her texture, her balance that first caught our attention…  

Declen Patten is currently based in a garage in Sheffield, he talks of the #lonelinessofanabstractpainter. We first encounter the depth of his paint in an exhibition curated by Sean Scully at London’s Flowers Gallery, his ever evolving theme is kind of adictitive, as are the photos of his studio… 

Links – CLARA LEMOS / DECLEN PATTEN / KIRSTEN REYNOLDS

Interact with Cultivate via the gallery website or Facebook feed

Previous on line shows in 2026

February 24th – Cultivate Presents: Mark Burrell, Recent Work, an exhibition…

February 17th – Cultivate Presents: Edgington, Recent Work, an exhibition…

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