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11/7/2002

In Your Time

Percy Miller Gallery, London

An exhibition of figurative paintings and drawings

Tom Ellis's small paintings are loose and painterly, and explore the boundaries between abstraction and narrative description. Often Ellis constructs models of imaginary landscapes and makes paintings directly from them. The recent winter landscapes are made in this way and are shown alongside the models.

G- Brecht is a London based Dutch artist. He is known for his large-scale paintings of office interiors, as well as his works depicting an outside world where nature and human technology, in the form of surveillance monitors, lighting systems and control stations, vie for dominance.

Keith Robert's new large landscape paintings, from the series The Edge of a Cold River, combine a painterly surface with a distorted sense of photographic realism. Using a palette of only black, blue and electric pink he produces a filtered image akin to those created by infra-red cameras.

Paul Ryan makes large pen and ink drawings on tissue paper, meticulously enlarged from small sketches. The gestural appearance of the resulting drawings is made up of thousands of small marks. Ryan has been recording his environment in sketch books for the last eighteen years and we will be showing three works, Beach, Spiders and The Three Crosses, the latter taken from a part of Michelangelo's famous drawing.

William Steiger's work is inspired by a former industrial age. The paintings represent structures which epitomise progress, movement and technology. His meticulously rendered paintings flirt with abstraction - devoid of all detail the subjects are stripped down to line, tone and colour. Included in the show will be Schuylkill - an aerial landscape of patchwork fields intersected by a winding river and Dirigible at Mooring Mast, a view of a zeppelin tethered to a mast. William Steiger lives and works in New York.

Marcel van Eeden's small graphite drawings refer to photographs which pre-date his birth in 1965. The images - which include bar and restaurant interiors, street scenes, burning buildings and landscapes - appear to have been randomly chosen but they are an attempt by van Eeden to describe everything from a world he never occupied. Closely hung these uniform works are punctuated by similar sized abstract and text based images derived from old advertisements. This is the first time Marcel van Eeden's work has been shown in London.

Opening times: Tuesday - Friday 11am - 6pm
Saturday 12noon - 4pm

Image: Marcel van Eeden no title pencil on paper 14 x 19 cm

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39 Snowsfields London SE1 3SU
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