Saturday 17 April 2010

Tension


My latest interest is with a painter called Carol Rhodes. For me Rhodes' paintings have that fantastic tension between surface and illusion, where a painting can be seen for its composition, brushmarks, colour and at the same time for its illusionary description. Her paintings are incredibly economical with colour and marks, so much so that one feels as tho the paintings actually exist in a no mans land between knowing and remembering.