Following the closure of the gallery Tina Frantzen used to exhibit in, she is now back exhibiting with two fellow artists at Railway St Studios, a very nice little gallery in Newmarket. Check out their work on opening night next Friday or dropping in during the time of the exhibition that runs to 25th November.
A popular and accomplished trio have come together to bring us Ether. Tina Frantzen, Lucy Eglington and Lucy Barker all work in an elevated space, allowing their minds to wander and reveal imaginative images. Frantzen’s paintings are of enigmatic and elusive figures who occupy those small, ephemeral moments between larger happenings. She paints intuitively, the details of each being unknown to her before painting commences, so that with each work there is a process of discovery as the painting proceeds. By not titling the pieces, Tina shares this sense of discovery with her audience who are free to interpret each painting as they wish. Her two most recent exhibitions have been in Paris last year as a member of Who’s Who Art International. Her works are held in private and public collections in Australia, UK. and NZ, including that of the James Wallace Trust. Barker’s drawings explore the different facets of experience. Through distortion of the same or similarly-themed images, her works look at the disjunction between expectation and reality and the potential for unexpected consequences. While Eglington’s work is concerned with the division between our inner and outer worlds. Subjects are often depicted with their inner worlds, their dreams or their ideals made flesh.
Stylistically her paintings are ‘out of time’ and with more than a nod to Pre-Raphaelite and Renaissance aesthetics, however on closer inspection they are more contemporary. Her subjects are modern. They confront the viewer directly. They quietly hint at the less perfect, more internal side of people’s lives. Lucy uses animals, insects and other props to bring these to life. Opens 7 November.
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