George Gallery
This selection of paintings is available exclusively through George Gallery, where I am guest resident artist.
https://www.georgegallery.co.uk/luciannawhittle
31 Duke Street Brighton BN1 1AG
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Chandelier
Oil on canvas, 122x152cm, £2695
What this painting revealed to me, is that we are glittering constellations of all the parts, moments and people that make up who we are. Contrary to the identity movement that seeks for definition and autonomy of self-concept, this painting tells me of a self held more loosely. A chandelier has a name as a whole, but it is made up of the many interfaces between the light and the glass. The chandelier manages to be both stately and fluid. Here, the eye of the viewer is enticed to continual motion because it is the passage of wandering through the spaces and between the strands and behind the membranes that completes the painting. The light must weave and dance. The viewer must participate, while holding the entirety. It says things are always changing but that they change is the fact that doesn't end. Chandelier.
Spring Reunion
Oil on canvas, 122x152cm, £2495
I had a deep sensation that the blossoms were overjoyed to touch the sky; that the trees delighted in being restored to greenness; that branches were striving to fill their allotted space in the sky, like fingers slipping into gloves. All these bodies inhabiting their correct time and living out their essential nature. There was something unnameable about the presence of that energy, but for me, this painting speaks of that axis from yearning to consummation.
Pollinator
Oil on canvas, 122x152cm, SOLD
All of my paintings are abstract and come from remaining steadily curious as the painting reveals itself to me. Pollinator was loosely inspired by the idea of paradise and the continual motion of nature in all its forms. The painting grew in momentum and it seemed as though each time I thought it was nearing completion, another element would almost dance into the composition. I relented into the idea that this was a painting resolutely of its own nature.