60 x 70 cm | 23 x 27 in
Subject: Abstract
Tags:
Orange,
Warm,
Layers
Original painting in oil on canvas.
These new paintings by Imi Williams feel like that strange, shimmering moment when you’ve been half-asleep in the heat, then step inside and open your eyes. Everything’s bleached out and flickering - that vivid optical phenomenon, almost psychedelic - internal, involuntary, and alive with movement. Fluorescent and feral - pigments caught mid-transformation, as if they’ve passed through a prism and haven’t yet settled.
You can feel how the artist let colour lead - followed, trusted. Summer without the cliché.
There’s a purity here - like unconscious material made visible but never dissected. The moment before a feeling lands, when you recognise something you couldn’t name.
Imi graduated from the Royal College last year. These are pieces for a serious collection - before someone else gets there first.
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Cascade and recess in these paintings equalise into stillness and movement. In a choreography of contrast, colours will pull against the magnetic black or blue swathes into new intensity. Lush deeper tones with vivid bright ones. These works by Imogen Williams are aerial and gymnastic, plush and undulating. They bring to mind the soft fluidity of Georgia O’Keeffe’s organic abstractions.
It’s the versatility of the paint medium that intrigues the artist, that she uses to draw out the tension between control and spontaneity. With colour she creates a glow, also giving the sense of a living canvas. There’s a sense of being compelled, mesmerised: the fascination that brings you in closer to look at nature or at art. These paintings are a locus: for the real feeling of imagined realms.