24 x 29 cm | 9 x 11 in
Subject: People
Tags:
Dark,
Feminine,
Pensive,
Hands,
Limbs
Original painting in oil on linen, presented in a wooden float frame, ready to hang.
"Part of an ongoing series of small works, traversing the territory of the Human Condition; exploring the constant dialogue, contrasts and tensions between the lives we live and the lives we feel, our outer and inner worlds."
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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.