In early June, Parapluie guests attended a studio visit to artist Jennifer Douglas. Jennifer's work references the working environments of heavy and light industry and their painterly equivalents within the history of modern and contemporary art. Her recent paintings, make both art historical reference to the founder of Spatialism, artist Lucio Fontana through slashes and holes and also reference another source - that of old, crumbling painted walls of old industrial sites. The tension between the use of industrial floor paint and the application of gold and silver leaf (which over time is destabilised through tarnishing and chemical change) creates a dialogue around the symbolism of metals associated with wealth and their too decline through the change in their elemental properties.