- Venue
- Le Cafe Parisien
- Starts
- Friday, September 16, 2011
- Ends
- Thursday, October 13, 2011
- Address
- 113 Lord Montgomery Way, Portsmouth, Hampshire
- Location
- South East England
This display, in a Parisian-style cafe, celebrates the fascination, loveliness and complexity of nature and then warns of the likely loss of biodiversity in the world. The shapes, outlines and effects of exotic species, such as fig and olive trees, have been merged, then copied exactly and are then painted in bright hues, in a style similar to landscape architecture plans, using traditional and modern compositions. The resulting pictures are reminiscent of the subject but are abstract, unusual and contemporary. Other paintings show endangered butterflies, turtles and dolphins and their habitats as if the animals have already become extinct – that is, with abstract gaps in the canvasses, to show how sad it would be if more of these creatures die out. The surrounding canvas is painted, including abstract, swirling, colourful lines to represent their habitats. The exhibition includes some new work. www.juliawilkinson.net
