150 x 123 cm | 59 x 48 in
Subject: Abstract
Original painting in oil on canvas.
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Catherine Eckersall studies natural landscapes and their folkloric history, creating mystical paintings that confound and beguile. Her exaggerated colours embody the shocking and often renewing process of immersing oneself into nature, while forms are distilled to their purest symbolic representation. Through intricate mark-making, natural shapes become other-worldly signs for us to decipher. It’s similar to the way superstitions affect a life, making magical thinking irresistible. Just take ‘Across the Eye’, a work inspired by the legend that a bulrush swept across the eye stops one from seeing a faery. If so, what’s being revealed to us in the painting? It’s a pleasure to think about the answer.