The raw, imposing structure of RAF Neatishead, a relic from the Cold War, provides a powerful contrast to the delicate themes of belonging and identity explored in Anya Vero's paintings.

The exhibition coincides with Remembrance Day, honouring the base's history and the lives of those who worked there and called it home.

Its rich heritage will be explored through guided tours, providing visitors to see the bunker up close.

Searching For Home by Anya Vero reflects on the meaning of belonging in the modern world. Increasingly, our identities are blurred, we explore new horizons and places to settle, in search of a place and state we can call home. It’s not just about the physical location but also the choice of vocation, the meaning to one’s life and the sense of belonging to certain communities and people.

This series dives into the visual representation of what wandering and looking for home looks like. Scenes from life and places. Symbolic elements like stars hint at places far away in the universe, other galaxies; throughout the millennia stars have been our navigation tools - spiritually and physically. Radars are symbols of looking for something and connecting; roads - leading somewhere. The shaped canvas and oils on faux silk is the signature style that brings the colours, composition and textures alive.

Vero’s background and the search for where and what is home is at the centre of these paintings: half Ukrainian half Russian, Latvian-born but having spent more than half of her life in other countries, the questions around her identity have never been fully answered and perhaps they never will.

Looking for home becomes as much a spiritual journey as it is a geographical location.