Landscape in Lull

Sophie Perkins

Sophie Perkin’s work plays with time, space, matter, weight — all the descriptors of elements that characterise our world. Inspired by renowned abstract expressionist painter Helen Frankenthaler, Perkins traces the very becoming of form in all its contradictions. From dependence and liberty to fragility and strength, the whole gambit of life is captured in one mark or ‘soak-stain’. Working in monochrome and colour, her paintings aim to surprise the viewer in appearing simple at first, and only slowly revealing the complex differences in each mark and layer of varying density and translucence. Pigments blot and bleed, to the effect that the work appears to live and breathe before us.