- Venue
- Subscription Rooms
- Starts
- Tuesday, February 8, 2011
- Ends
- Saturday, February 26, 2011
- Address
- George Rooms, Subscription Rooms Kendrick Street, Stroud, Gloucestershire. GL5 1AE
- Location
- South West England
Ange Mullen-Bryan returns with a solo exhibition in the George Rooms at Stroud Subscription Rooms this February 8th until the 26th. With many of the paintings not previously exhibited and more space to view these often large oil paintings the show promises to be a dramatic experience. Ange’s paintings are inspired by the lakes and forests of a vast Swedish landscape and a very particular and beautiful Nordic light; they also have something of desolation and loneliness in the remote and barren spaces they reflect. As if the artist were looking for her way, these are paintings that plot points on a journey, be it a physical or emotional one, or perhaps something of both. As if looking for a map to navigate her way through this landscape, a land that becomes something closer to a scene from ancient myth or folklore, where the imagination runs away and the uncanny resides. Where the real and imagined co-exist and are often difficult to determine. There is a treacherous nature to her work, you feel there is an all or nothing approach, where the brush strokes are either barely there or thick and impasto; as if with each one she were walking a tightrope.
