FOLLOW THE LIGHT

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22nd - 27th July 2024

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​​A retrospective exhibition featuring a selection of still life paintings by Maureen Carlson.
Her influencers have varied over the years from Freud to Colin Davidson and Jonathan Yeo.
She uses acrylic and oil paints, charcoal, graphite and pastels mostly in her work which would be described as representational. She works mostly from photographs that she has taken of people and plants, and recently fruit and vegetables for still life paintings.

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In contemporary art still life subjects continue to prove popular, particularly in painting and photography. As with the artists of the past, the portrayal of everyday items is often loaded with symbolism or conceptual content. Maureen Carlson's Photorealist paintings revived the vanitas genre for a new generation by incorporating objects from contemporary life.​​​​

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