The warmth of familiarity or of a day well spent while a sun sets – or a well-known building or path in the park; a feeling you might have with a particular time, place or person. Tactile, gentle, these artworks are about belonging.
Nina Goldsmith is featured twice, perhaps because her approach encapsulates something about knowing a scene so intrinsically. In these two paintings she creates a static image through layers and layers of texture, in this way affirming a sense of the embodied knowing of a place.
The palettes in these works are soft, the pigments moving intuitively, elegantly across the canvas. The sense is of a widened catchment of vision from the drift in focus: taking in the broader scene. Gentle in spirit and palette.
If one of these works speaks to you and you’d like to know about the artist’s practice, or about situating the work, get in touch with me and I’d be happy to talk more with you about it. I hope you enjoy this curation.
Sarah
