LEMONS
Paintings by Beryl Robinson
29th March - 14th April 2013
Lane House Arts/O'Neill's Gallery, Walcot Chapel, Walcot, Bath
My painting history spans three decades from abstract and process painting, to the use of every day objects and environment as a starting point. The work involves repetition of subjects and forms emerging from a colour field in an emblematic square format.
The everyday subject matter is elevated by the medium of seductive oil painting as the subject matter fills the frame. From the first painting in 1983 entitled "Lemons", a distinctive subject-object dilemma has been consistent in the work. Discrete and reticent forms bring abstract qualities to material and natural phenomena.
The images are simple and restrained. The four lemons are in a process of becoming, an emergence of image from ground. Subjects are repeated, reformed, renewed.
An Exhibition of layered, glazed oil paintings with still life and landscape themes by London based artist, Beryl Robinson at the Walcot Chapel, Bath. The objects are repeated for their subtle differences in colour and composition. She follows the tradition of English abstract painting, testing our perception and creating a nuanced illumination of objects as they are disembodied and reconstituted.
Her recent exhibitions include Diesel House Studios; Kew Bridge Steam Museum; Somerset House; Tintype Gallery; Artists At Home, West London; Lane House Arts, Bath and her work is in commercial and private collections around the world.
She studied Fine Art at Reading University and postgraduate at Goldsmiths College, London. She works in studios in Palace Wharf, London and in Truinas, Drome in the South of France.
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