50 x 50 cm | 19 x 19 in
Subject: People
Tags:
Meditation,
Eyes Closed
Original painting in oil on wood panel.
"I am here again face turned to the sun, whispering into winds until I can hear my voice repeated back through the chiming of birds. A chorus replayed. Singing: Beauty is in the uncovering, its within the stitching, it's the falling. It's within you." - Toni Cogdell, 2017.
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The subjects of Toni Cogdell’s portraits crystallise in the midst of colour and texture’s motion, like the scattering of light across a garden. Literary and art historical allusion situate these paintings in a continuum of artistic achievement, and they examine the solitary moment of introspection that is the beginning of all such discoveries. They emerge from – or they surge toward, and are suspended within – the abstract backdrop of their environment. The holistic scene is constructed by harmonising subtle tones with elements of boldly coloured, gestural brushwork; these paintings follow the terra incognita of the soul: a work in progress.