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Opening
at Marianne Newman Gallery on Friday the 18th
March, are two diverse exhibitions titled Turbulence
by Pamela Twomey and Recalculating
by Lyndal Campbell. Twomey and Campbell are artists with different
and distinctive styles of painting that respond to and derive their
work from a common thread - their surroundings.
Pamela
Twomey's paintings are inspired by her personal, spiritual and
emotional responses to images she sees around her. Her aim is to
translate these emotions in order to evoke a similar response from
the viewer.
Turbulence
focuses on the landscape of the seaside and water. These images are a
progression from her earlier images of clouds, where she used the
clouds as a metaphor for the different emotional states she was
experiencing. Twomey uses the seascape to represent her current
emotional state, using light to best transcend her vision.
The
sublime reflections from within and around the water are captured in
striking detail. Her paintings are representational, but blur the
boundaries with the abstract, whether they investigate the ambiguous
waves, and ripples of the water or depict more menacing
visualisations with a sense of the unknown.
Twomey
has exhibited widely over recent years and paints from her studio (a
former military building) at the beautiful scenic Headland Park in
Mosman.
Lyndal
Campbell states that Recalculating
is a means of reaching a destination after having taking a series of
wrong turns. The title of her exhibition was inspired by a friend's
two year old who continued to repeat ‘recalculating', the word
uttered by the GPS on the journey to find Campbell's new place.
Campbell
grew up by the water on the Central Coast but felt drawn to the inner
city and her more recent move to suburbia by the sea is explored and
documented in this current series of work. There is a dramatic change
between the surroundings from where Campbell started, and where she
concludes her journey. "Flight Path" is seen as a busy array of
colour and lines, a scene reminiscent to earlier days in the city.
The artwork progresses to the fluid blues and lush greens seen from
the new surroundings, and can be easily distinguished in
"Serendipitous".
Lyndall
Campbell portrays a journey towards contentment and the clarity of
headspace she has found with her move. She states "After being so
resistant to change and thinking the city was my world, I have
discovered a new world filled with blues of the ocean and greens of
the landscape, where I can watch the seasons change and things grow
and have the time to appreciate it all."
Campbell
is an intuitive painter but she works on paintings till she feels
they are resolved ... this can involve years of reworking a complex,
multi-layered and boldly coloured oil painting. The viewer is drawn
in to look closer at what lies under the layers. Campbell's first
exhibition was over 20 years ago and she has been delighting her
audience ever since.
Both
Twomey and Campbell respond to their surroundings in a deeply
personal way, presenting the audience with works that evoke
sensations that carry us along with them.
Turbulence
and
Recalculating
is on show at Marianne
Newman Gallery, 1 Albany Street, Crows Nest from 18
March - 9 April 2011. Gallery
Hours:
Tuesday to Saturday 10am - 5pm
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