The sun may have turned it on in London this week, but with the UK’s ever-unpredictable weather, having a back-up plan is the smart girl’s option. Bringing the sunshine no matter the forecast, there are three new colour-drenched exhibitions to keep your eyeballs busy this weekend, starting with JeeYoung Lee’s just-opened Maiden Voyage installation at Greenwich’s Now Gallery. Drawing on her memories and dreams, the South Korean artist has created a surreal hanging forest from more than 400 handmade paper gingko leaves – with visitors encouraged to record their own memories on origami paper which will be folded into a swan and added to the exhibition (until 25 September; free; Peninsula Sq, London SE10).
Meanwhile Mayfair’s Saatchi Yates gallery is displaying a powerful exhibition by Zurich-born artist Angela Santana. In her first solo UK show, 14 of Santana’s large-scale oil paintings depicting fragmented online images of the female form have been brought together in an exploration and rejection of the male fantasy (until 31 August; free; 6 Cork St, London W1S). And, when the sun does show up again, wander along Kensington + Chelsea Art Week’s Public Art Trail and take in London artist Azarra Amoy’s unique installation, Kaleidoscopic Minds, which celebrates neurodiverse people and their contribution to arts and sciences through a series of enlivening kaleidoscopic artworks (until August 30; free; Exhibition Rd, London SW7). Just remember to pack an umbrella.