Hotel de Dream takes its name from Emma Tennant’s 1976 magic realist novel, in which the dreams of the residents of the Westringham Hotel seep out from the minds of their dreamers and merge with each other and with the outside world. Magical transformation, metamorphosis, and a blurring between reality and fantasy permeate the air. With story-telling as the connecting thread, this exhibition brings together four painters who - through vivid symbolism and fable-like narratives - conjure mysterious and enigmatic worlds that shift, churn, weave, and entrance.

Hannah Bays (b. 1982) is a London based painter who graduated from the Royal Academy Schools, London, in 2015. Group exhibitions include: The Wicker Arms, Staffordshire St. Gallery, London (2025); I’m Not Afraid of Ghosts, Palazzo Tiepolo Passi, Venice (2024); ABG Emerging, Alice Black Gallery, London (2024); Muscle Beach, (two-person exhibition with Ana Kazaroff) Kupfer Project, London (2021); The People’s Mandate, Metro Auditorio, Mexico City, Mexico (2020). Solo exhibitions: Confessions, Jack’s House, London, (2024); Night Walk, Asylum Studios, Suffolk (2023); Desire Peaks, Cob Gallery, London (2016).

Diana Cumming (1929-2024) studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, graduating in 1954. Solo exhibitions include Beaux Arts Gallery, London (1964), the Serpentine Gallery, London (1987), the Cooling Gallery, London (1990), Hereford Museum and Art Gallery (1990) and Thompson’s Gallery, London (2005). Her work is included in a number of public collections, including the Arts Council Collection, Government Art Collection, The Wilson, Walker Art Gallery, UCL Art Museum, and Herefordshire Museums & Galleries.

Seonhee Jung (b. 1995) is a Seoul and London based artist who received an MFA in Fine Art from the Slade School of Fine Art in 2025. Recent selected exhibitions include A Room of One’s Own at Space uooyong, Seoul (2023); Line Shift and Bakery Shift at Small Time Project, London (2025); Moving Principle at Arusha Gallery, London (2025); and New Poem at Modern Animals, Zurich (2025).

Rosa Loy (b. 1958) is a Leipzig based painter. She completed her BFA and MFA at the Academy of Visual Art in Leipzig and is associated with the New Leipzig School. Recent exhibitions include: Sonne im Sinn, Kunsthalle Rostock (until 30 November 2025); Verweile doch, Galerie Kleindienst, Leipzig (2025); Aus der Hand (with Neo Rauch), Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig (2025); Glade, Micheal Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles (2024); Herbarium, Lyles & King, New York, (2023); Rosa Loy & Rose Wylie - Doubletten, Museum Bensheim, Bensheim (2023); Lucky Days, Gallery Baton, Seoul (2022). Loy’s work is included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago; Busan Museum of Art, Busan, South Korea; and Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig, among others.