Catrin Webster: (be) longing
This exhibition presents new paintings by Catrin Webster, rooted in places that have long held significance within her practice. The work invites the viewer to share in a process of careful, repeated looking.
This series of new paintings by Catrin Webster, re-visit places seen and painted over a 40 year career. They have special meaning for the artist who feels deeply connected to these particular landscapes. Many are curated spaces such as historic gardens, where trees, shrubs and flowers are planted to create an aesthetic experience and walkways, vantage points and seating offer particular views and vistas. Such places make a bridge into the language of painting. The small-scale oils on linen are made in situ while the more expansive larger paintings are made in the studio after time immersed in these landscape.
Catrin, when discussing this new work says: ‘Colour is in the moment of looking, a visceral and physical now. Symbolism, the illusions of depth and perspective in paintings are longings for the unreachable, like the pasts, and the futures, projections into and through the pool of the surface.’
