Delighted to be included in ‘We Called Yesterday Today’ – Cupola Contemporary Art Christmas show. And very happy that my painting ‘Query’ is in the publicity! Opening tomorrow evening from 7:30.
Welcome to Sheffield event listing
Come along to view paintings, prints, reproductions and a few of my Daily Drawings sketchbooks!
Little Nomad Gallery, Keighley Arts Hub
5 November – 17 December 2022
“Vivid, gestural oil paintings display a fascination with facial expressions. Viv has the help of unwitting accomplices she ‘captures’ from feature films and TV to see these fleeting expressions. Viv chooses her subjects from familiar dramas, aiming to portray a key moment of anticipation or reaction, that viewers will find puzzling and relatable Viv comments in her work on getting emotionally entangled with artificial dramas. Painting becomes a useful way of reusing the headspace that these fictional people take up Viv often arranges many paintings as an immersive wall of images, or in small groups as intimate as family snapshots on a mantelpiece. She has displayed in old industrial mills, reclaimed empty shops, museum spaces and galleries further afield in Sheffield and London”
Bright, gestural oil paintings reveal a fascination with emotional states, with the help of unwitting accomplices captured from the TV screen. Subtle in scale: a whisper in the ear rather than a shout across the room, their textured surfaces contain intriguing hints of the depths of emotion below
