Tom Jensen paints the marshlands north of the Thames—reservoirs, council blocks, chain-link fences, children flickering between figure and glyph. Working in distemper on linen, he builds surfaces alluvial by constitution, absorbent and unstable as London sunshine. Swallow the Ground presents paintings that fix the moment just before or after the main action: immersive, perceptually unstable, suffused with trans-temporal awareness of a city always in the process of dissolving.
