A delicate implosion of colour and shapes: this describes ‘Daytime Illusions’ by Rosalyn Ng, in being abstract as well as recognisable as a bouquet. Colourful arabesques fuse toward the centre of the artwork, while around the edges density begins to dissolve. The accelerated, gestural mark-making makes us think of Cy Twombly – who said, “Everything lives in the present, it’s the only time it can live”.
In Rosalyn’s work the line, the mark, is a moment of frisson, a link; nature is being painted from the inside out. Here we see the frenetic yet graceful transference of an image: its spontaneous arising and transient form. It’s a response to the velocity of image-making we experience each day around us, in the city as well as in nature: snatching at beauty as it speeds by.
Words by Maggie