until 06 Oct 19
Striking strokes and expressionistic colours, a red ectoplasmic self, coloured-in, a golden body, ageless, ageing, unexpected.
‘How did you get on this canvas?’
Backward mirror quotes, direct and intimate like the portraits, not cerebral like on many pop-art-inspired word paintings.
If there is a ‘condition’ it remains unnamed magnificently as everyone’s experience of life is their own and demanding its rightful, unbiased merit.
Then come the deceivingly simple landscapes, they come to take us momentarily outward from the emotional inner chamber occupied by the portraits and into a blazing sunshine.
But the gaze, her husband’s, her father’s, her sitters’, is imprinted, green, blue, yellow, present; defiant heads, defiant bodies, held high; in a venue that is a gem, defiant itself and proud, filled with beautiful, joyful voices of kids, carers, visitors, art students, hi-brows; cause here, exactly here, everyone is welcome.
more info:
www.visitleicester.info/whats-on/lucy-jones-awkward-beauty-p778451"
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/jun/21/lucy-jones-paintings-exhibitions-flowers-gallery
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