Plaza Premium Lounge is presenting two new concurrent Spotlight Art exhibitions, Marcia Scott Flow at London Heathrow Terminal 2 and Joe Machine Nature at Gatwick North Terminal.

This is the fourth instalment of new artists following the success of the ‘Art and Lounge’ concept series previously introduced in Dubai, Kuala Lumpur as well as London, in collaboration with curators Amie Conway and Alex Cousens, aiming to create an immersive gallery ambiance within the airport.

Plaza Premium Group is passionate about nurturing the artistic heartbeat of the countries and cities that house its lounges. By collaborating with local curators, Plaza Premium Group offer a global platform for these talents to showcase their work to a discerning audience of travellers. This commitment fosters a vibrant cultural exchange and nourishes the local creative scene.

Marcia Scott “Flow” Exhibition

Marcia ScottFlow, Plaza Premium Lounge Heathrow Terminal 2 (installation view)
Immerse into the flow of colours with Troubadour, Camouflage and Canter at Plaza Premium Lounge.

Marcia ScottFlow, Plaza Premium Lounge Heathrow Terminal 2 (installation view)
Conundrum exhibited within the interior VIP area.

At Heathrow Terminal 2, rising artist Marcia Scott Flow exhibition features striking abstract paintings, recent and new enchanting works experimenting with a variety of paint media; such as gloss enamels, hammarite and fluorescent spray.

Each canvas begins with a layered solid ground of static pure tone in bright blue, pink, yellow, black, white and gold. The palette is simply the seven colours of the rainbow, meticulously chosen to become part of the magic, to mix and create a spectrum of multi-coloured hues and textures, merging, marbling and splaying. Scott establishes new processes of mixing and moving paint, pouring directly on to the canvas, with gestural freedom; creating organic sensuous forms and flows, fused and highlighted with colour. Concerned with relationships and form, balance and fluidity; this unique process creates a visual language, which can be considered both abstract and surreal, likened to musical scores.

Descending from a family of artists, Marcia Scott is the daughter of Peter and Rachel Scott, sister of Iona Scott. Born 1967, studying a foundation course at Chelsea School of Art and graduating from St. Martin’s School of Art in 2000. She now works from her London studio, a sacred and spiritual space to inspire ‘a revolution of love and healing through abstract art.’ For many years working alongside her partner Al Damidge at the prestigious studio of step-father Sir Frank Bowling RA OBE and on various pieces, of which ‘Journey Along With Marcia Scott’ was nominated for the Wollaston Prize at the show of the Royal Academy of Arts, London. Notable solo exhibitions include; We Are All Related, University of Louisiana, showcasing spectacular large-scale paintings of up to four meters in length from the series of Rivers of Dreams. Cello Factory, London hosted a major solo exhibition; Back to the Future – Dreaming In Colour – Here And Now in 2018. Scott has exhibited worldwide, featured in important group exhibitions at Barry Campbell, New York and London Abscape, Bode, Berlin.

“Flow is the dominant dynamic of Marcia Scott’s recent paintings. Flow is what creates the shapes; and its cessation, its edges, its boundaries and its dissipations are what determine the interrelations between those shapes and the static colour fields within which they swirl, puddle, convolute and configure…. The eye’s imagination has excitements here: incitements to reverie.” Mel Gooding, 2018

Joe Machine “Nature” Exhibition

Joe Machine Nature, Plaza Premium Lounge Gatwick North Terminal (installation view)
Painted British landscapes of Wealden Orchard with Magpies, Path Through the Beech Woods and Ghostwood with Blue Flowers welcome you to the Plaza Premium Lounge reception.

Joe Machine Nature, Plaza Premium Lounge Gatwick North Terminal (installation view)
A group of exhibited paintings, including the Church with visiting Jackdaws, Meadow Walk and Prowling Fox.

At Plaza Premium Lounge Gatwick North Terminal award winning artist Joe Machine Nature celebrates a true love of the United Kingdom. Machine’s distinctive figurative style walks the viewer down paths into ancient woodlands, through fields with flowers in areas of outstanding natural beauty, favourite world heritage sites and national trails, such as Avebury Stones, Coldrum and Silent Valley. The imagery depicts orchards, cherry blossoms, anemones, bluebells, prowling foxes, march hares, magpies, kingfishers and more. Each picture carefully studies the landscape, flora and fauna, throughout the seasons; autumn, spring, summer and winter.

Joe Machine has lived an extraordinary life. Born 1973 in Kent enduring a troubled upbringing and exposure to crime; his life has been reformed through his artist practice and now settled in Somerset with a loving family. Machine has exhibited widely, notably at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool and at prestigious art venues worldwide. A founding member of the Stuckist Group of artists, known for their campaigns for figurative and traditional painting, Nature, is amongst many themes of Machines’ impressive oeuvre, including portraiture and mythologic paintings, such as seen in the Arthurian, Britannic Myths, Inferno and Genesis series. A major book was published by Petronivs, 2014, with essays by renowned author and art critic Edward Lucie-Smith. Machine’s works are dovetailed to the creative writings of Dr Steven O’Brien, whose poetry and prose create a harmonic symbiosis of brush and pen.

This exhibition features varying size original acrylic on canvas colour paintings, alongside unique monochrome scraperboards; a form of direct engraving where black India ink is hand scratched to create a fine white china clay line.

“A striking feature of all series .... is that they share an immediately recognizable artistic language. Once you’ve seen a Joe Machine you will have no difficulty in spotting his hand in any other.” Edward Lucie-Smith, The London Magazine, 2021

For sales enquiries and to receive information about upcoming events, please contact

Amie Conway, Art Advisor & Curator
+44 (0) 7581 111 217
[email protected]
Alex Cousens, Art Advisor & Curator
+44 (0) 7903 295 036
[email protected]

Plaza Premium Lounge Heathrow
Level 4, Terminal 2 Departures, London Heathrow Airport
Plaza Premium Lounge Gatwick
North Terminal Departures (near gates 45-55 and 101-103), London Gatwick Airport