This exhibition emerges from the meeting of two artists whose practices, though grounded in distinct traditions, share a sustained inquiry into perception, material, and being. Korean artist Da Aie Park and English painter David Eddington construct between them a dialogue that resists resolution. Their collaboration does not merge difference into unity; rather, it holds difference as a generative tension — between gesture and structure, between transience and form.

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Park’s paintings on freely suspended hanji inhabit a space between presence and disappearance. Her restrained palette and atmospheric works draw on the meditative sensibility of traditional Asian brushwork, yet they retain a distinctly contemporary sensibility: the color field as breath,  a bird messenger, image as a moment of arrival. In her work, migration and movement are evoked not through representation but through rhythm — an echo of natural and emotional currents that remain unresolved.

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Eddington’s practice, conversely, stems from the Western pictorial tradition. His romantic pragmatism fuses an architectural attention to form with an awareness of the instability of light and mood. The Renaissance influence is evident in his compositional discipline, yet his Neo-expressionistic approach resists nostalgia. What results is a painterly reflection on the condition of humankind itself — how matter, atmosphere, and emotion converge to shape the world.

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The exhibition’s title, The Calm Tempest’s Quest, names a shared paradox at the centre of their exchange: serenity and disturbance as coexistent states. Their works together articulate a phenomenological question — how being discloses itself through flux, and how art can trace that disclosure without attempting to fix it. The paintings invite contemplation not as escape, but as a mode of attentiveness to the instability of our times, of existence itself.

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Through their dialogue, Park and Eddington offer a space where cultural and aesthetic boundaries are neither denied nor reconciled, but instead become sites of reflection. The calm, the tempest, and the quest all unfold simultaneously — as processes of seeing, remembering, and becoming.