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9/12/2002

Soft Edges

Clapham Art Gallery, London

GILL ROCCA

Gill Rocca graduated from Winchester School of Art, Barcelona, with an MA in European Fine Art in 1996 after completing her BA at Leeds University. We are delighted to present Rocca in her first show with Clapham Art Gallery.

Rocca creates beautifully rendered oil paintings that depict with delicate precision the many forms of clouds and skies. Varying in scale from tiny to truly monumental, Rocca's paintings are engaging and gently seductive.

Rocca's clouds can represent anything from a gentle playful form to a dark and threatening mass and in this can prompt diverse emotional reactions in the viewer. As Rocca says, 'clouds somehow represent thoughts, reflection, daydreams' and the mundane can often become transformed into the 'elemental, surreal, symbolic, metamorphic, extra-terrestrial'.

These responses are effected through Rocca's initial choice of subject. Beginning with randomly photographing skies the artist carefully selects and crops the image. The result is a painting that represents more the original sky rather than the photograph. Indeed, Rocca is an expert in translating the character of the world above us through her rendering of movement against stillness and form against space. Combined with a keen use of colour we may be presented with still blue skyscapes or burning, incandescent sunsets.

In essence we are given a series of beautiful and evocative paintings that represent a culmination of three years painting skies.

Image: Gill Rocca 'A Chair in the Sky' 150x150cm Oil on canvas 2002

Private View (Serving Mojito): Tuesday 10/12/02 7.00pm - 900pm

Contact: Zavier Ellis / Aniko Pall

Clapham Art Gallery
61 venn street london SW4 0BD // unit 2 40-48 bromell's road london SW4 0BG
+44 (0)20 7720 0955

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