Claire Townsend

Claire Townsend

This is a beautiful piece of contemporary abstract art, with a wonderful sense of composition and movement.

Produced with acylic and pencil, the thoughtful lines evoke ships hulls, and roofs of shanties roofs by the sea shore. The use of colour is Rothkoesque, if as he had a calm day at the beach (!) with their gentle warm blues and sublte calming limes. The texture of the paint also evokes painted wood work, adding to a nautical feel, as well as a wonderful sense of movement.

Compositionally there are nods to Sean Scully's early abstracts, who also used constrasting yellow and blues, for which he is known, although again this is much lighter and bouyant in feeling, and feels unique in its more pastel tones.

The daring pops of bright reds and midnight blues are a wonderful contrast and are reminscent of Wolfgang Tillman's photography experimentation, where he used salts to add unusual bursts of contrasting colour, and add an unexpected and unique bent to this painting.

'A morning Fog' by Kyungsoo Lee is is unique in it's colour and texture.

The artist is primarily concerned with abstract yet organic, nature inspired pieces, with strong graphite detailing and this is one of her finest.

The contrast of the deep browns with delicate ethereal pinks against the almost neon yellow is an evocative story of nature awakening after a cool night. The artist's colour choices of brown and yellow are bold and exciting, and fight with each other in a unque way, while the pale pinks envelope them reminiscent of a oversized flowers or morning fog, after which the painting is named.

The intimate fine graphite details add a wonderful sense of urgency and movement over an organic piece that seems to recall the calm nature.

The use of scribble and layering of colours is remniscent of Cy Twomby, yet it's use of layering of texture and multimedia feels incredibly contemporary, which I'm sure in person is even more pronouned and ingriguing than on a screen.

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