As evening descends, the world softens. Wherever you are, the sky turns a deep, bruised purple, and the air, thick with the kind of quiet that seeps into your bones, closes in around you, as though the world itself is drawing its last breath. All things yield to their shadows. Yet, there’s often something tender about the way darkness creeps in, not as an enemy, but as an old friend seeking rest. Over the centuries, many creatives have found solace in welcoming the dark. One of them is the poet John Oxenham, whose evocative poem ‘Nightfall’ titles this exhibition of four contemporary painters. In his poem, Oxenham describes the transition from day to night through a simple structure of five stanzas that mirror the gentle movement of twilight. Yet this text could also be seen as a lyrical reflection on mortality, where the speaker, nearing death, acknowledges approaching darkness with a certain anticipation. The poem’s tone creates an atmosphere of peaceful resignation, capturing the gradual fading of light with soft, meditative language. Written in the early 20th century, the poem resonated with an audience seeking solace in nature’s rhythms, offering a quiet counterpoint to the era’s industrial noise and unrest. As our modern world undergoes similar transformations, some contemporary artists also seem to long for a quiet approach to life (and, inevitably, death). Similarly, in this exhibition, the works of Li Shuangyi, Jonah Alexander, Rosa Sittig-Bell and Bertil Osorio meditatively reflect on life under darkness. Each of these four painters explore the gradual transition of light to dusk by capturing both the atmospheric and psychological nuances of twilight. Muted palettes, fragmented forms, and subtle tensions in these paintings call for the dissipation of the ordinary into the uncanny and invite a contemplative immersion in the liminal, ever-shifting realms of nightfall.