Galerie Miranda’s 2026 winter exhibition proposes a voyage into abstracted landscapes by three contemporary artists working between painting and photography: Chuck Kelton, Chloe Sells and Marian Wijnvoord.

Chuck Kelton (1952, American), employs darkroom chemistry, light and process to create abstractions evoking ethereal, elemental landscapes - volcanic, glacial, lunar, desertic. His gestures on the paper are various - brushing, folding, dipping - and works can take several weeks to complete, after layers of chemistry and development. For this exhibition the gallery has selected pale, minimalist works, evocative of frozen northern lakes and skies. All of Chuck Kelton’s works are unique.

Chloe Sells (1976, American), takes analog landscape photographs that she prints and cuts by hand, reworking them either in the darkroom or in her studio by applying overlays of light, paint and ink. These new works were taken in the Aspen forests of Colorado, the artist’s childhood home, that she then hand printed in the darkroom and then overlaid with acrylic paint, using the delicate, antique process of marbling, traditionally used in book-binding. All of Chloe Sells’ works are unique.

Marian Wijnvoord creates timeless images that refer to landscape, drawing upon the aesthetics of the North European painting tradition. Often her images are preoccupied with the capture of uncontrollable nature, showing a duality in both subject matter and technique by using the oldest preoccupation of painting: the illusion of space on a flat surface. The artist’s strong, present brushstrokes bring a contemporary tension to the physicality of the paint versus the intemporality of the image.

The exhibition title Winterreise (Winter’s Journey), references the celebrated Franz Schubert song cycle (1827) which recounts the melancholy of a young traveller who wanders out into the snowy landscape on a journey to rid himself of his lost love.