“Giving overlooked objects a stage” – Florence Houston and her wonderful jelly paintings

“I LIKE taking overlooked objects and giving them a stage”, painter Florence Houston tells me. I’m sitting in her West London studio a week prior to the opening of Powder Puff, her solo show at Lyndsey Ingram. The exhibition comprises seventeen works, nine of them close-ups of wobbling jellies. The others include whipped cream towers, cakes and a cone of glacé cherries.