Sacha Jafri (B 1977, Britain)Brit painter Sacha Jafri has gained international acclaim since his graduate show only 6 years ago. His work features in major private collections throughout the world, not to mention his celebrity following and has raised over £1.5 million for charity by auctioning selected works. Jafri has always defined himself as a "magical realist" - a phrase that, in the visual register, evokes the work of a slightly older contemporary, Peter Doig, and historically, the tradition of surrealism. Whilst Doig remains an influence, Jafri's work has nothing to do with modernism's literalising of the unconscious. Far more important, I'd suggest, are literary sources: Marquez, Rushdie, perhaps Angela Carter and Alejo Carpentier. In each of these writers the mundane stuff of everyday life is suddenly illuminated and made "magical" by the intrusion of an event that is itself quotidian, but which, in the context of the quotidian seems wholly extraordinary to the narrator. (Perhaps the apogee of such moments is the "discovery" of ice in Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude.) Looking at Jafri's paintings of the Thames - Westminster and this city dweller, jaded by experience, once again sees urban life as enchanted, as if seeing it for the first time through the eyes of a child or a young love.