The Paintings of Philippa Blair
28 June – 25 July
If painting is like keeping a diary, then the works of Philippa Blair are a personal record of the thoughts, feelings, and events that motivate, inspire, or even at times, horrify her. “I develop with the painting,” she says. “It’s as if the DNA of the painting and my own DNA somehow combine to create a new lifeform.”
This show’s paintings offer an incredible insight into the artist’s creative process, nothing is hidden, the immediacy is the message. As it has been throughout her long career, Blair continues to challenge herself. She draws on her reserves, harnesses energies, as if it is an essential requirement of an artist she pushes firmly against any sense of a casual acceptance of the status quo. She has avoided easy categorisations, her work has been, and continues to be, a series of heightened discoveries, explorations into the infinite possibilities of mark-making and painterly expression.
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