Martin Greenland
dal 9/9/2009 al 9/10/2009
Segnalato da
9/9/2009
Martin Greenland
Art Space Gallery, London
Greenland's paintings are a celebration of colour, at times subdued, while at others vibrant and glowing. Underpinned by a mysterious and symbolic use of light that places him firmly in the Northern European tradition.
Art Space Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of landscape paintings by Martin Greenland, his first solo exhibition with Art Space Gallery and the first in London since being awarded first prize in the John Moores 24 in 2006.
"To the River Duddon " by MARTIN GREENLANDBorn (1962) in Yorkshire and now living and working in the Lake District, Greenland takes the English countryside as his subject and makes paintings that look straightforwardly realistic, but beneath the clarity of his images there lies an unsettling world that calls for closer scrutiny. They might carry the conviction of the real world but are in fact imagined places; compound images that stem from memory and imagination they are places that have evolved on the canvas rather than being a rendition of an actual place. They are arrangements of memory.
For Greenland, landscape provides a vehicle for the distillation of mood and emotion. Images of an outer world are blended with an inner world of sensations, feelings and memory to achieve a heightened form of reality which probes at our relationship to the physical world. As Andrew Lambirth comments in the exhibition catalogue: “He composes, he invents. Greenland’s roots are in many art forms, from Symbolism to Surrealism via Realism and Romanticism. He paints ideas and feelings about the context in which we find ourselves and live out our lives.”
Greenland’s paintings are also a celebration of colour, at times subdued, while at others vibrant and glowing; his control of paint stretches from impasto to the most delicate of marks. Underpinned by a mysterious and symbolic use of light that places him firmly in the Northern European tradition, they are paintings that the British dramatist Willy Russell has described as being ….a striking fusion of arresting myth and exquisite landscape.
A catalogue accompanies the exhibition with 11 full colour plates and text by Andrew Lambirth.
image details: To the River Duddon 2008; Oil on linen, 87 x 102 cm
Private view 10 September, Thursday 6 - 8:30 pm
Art Space Gallery - Michael Richardson Contemporary Art
84 St. Peter's Street, London N1 8JS
Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 11 am until 6 pm
free admission