In many ways, British artist Adam Baker's debut exhibition at BEERS London is about searching for meaning through moments of intimacy. These imagined snapshots of queer life and love depict different ways in which we pursue meaning and purpose in our lives, through hedonistic pursuits or the quiet closeness of reading a book, Baker states his paintings are a form of therapy, bridging the gap between his goals as an artist, and those of a young gay man living in the big bustling city of London. Queerness, caution, celebration. These paintings are rife with themes that straddle a fine line between quietness and excess. They draw upon a broad visual language - whether reminiscent of the lyrical prose scenes of the recently deceased author Edmund White; or tropes found in film of dimly lit bars or those soul-aching post-coital and pre-meaning moments