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' Meditations'

Fion Gunn
&
Audrey Mullins

13 June - 17 July vate

Private view: Monday 13 June 2005 : 6-8 PM

The Wine Gallery-49 Hollywood Rd, London SW10
contact Art 3 for more info on 020 7585 0645

 

Art 3 are pleased to present 'Meditations' paintings and mixed media works by Fion Gunn and Audrey Mullins. Fion is having her second showing with Art 3, having previously exhibited with Sorcha Rooney at The Wine Gallery in May-June 2004 . For more information on the artists go to the press release for this show

FION GUNN :

"I work on handmade papers or canvas using acrylic paints, gold leaf & silver leaf.

The richly coloured surfaces are created with numerous washes of paint and often built up using layers of translucent mulberry paper or combinations of several different papers. This gives texture and complexity to the surface which also suggests the passage of time and the many stages each piece goes through during its creation..

Architectural images are reconstructed in an emotional and subjective way - the way in which we remember places and feelings. The process of "restoration" visible in the paintings becomes a metaphor for both memory and healing.

This series of paintings explores the state of meditation and contemplation, the images which appear are those of quiet gardens, buddhas and windows into spaces of sanctuary.

This work is about is an inner landscape of tranquility and peace - I am looking for visual harmony and refuge much as Matisse sought to make paintings which were like "a comfy chair".


Fion Gunn 'Bhudda'

Fion Gunn 'View from Pagoda'

 

AUDREY MULLINS :

All my work in this exhibition is mixed media and I use a combination of paper, acrylic paint and varnishes.

These are small intensely coloured images - evocations of places I have visited and remembered.. The paintings are not naturalistic, they are abstract views which record the moments I have spent in these places - like postcards from the past. The scale of the work emphasises the intimacy and personal nature of my responses.

I use my own invented visual language made up of simple gestural marks and the surface of the paintings is constructed in this way.

These works are my ‘meditations’, my way of living in the moment and achieving a sense of peace.


Audrey Mullins


Audrey Mullins

 


Fion Gunn 'Fleeting time'