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'Off the Map'

Patricia Wynn Davies

21 February - 3 April 2005

Private Private view: Monday 21 February 2005 : 6-8 PM

The Wine Gallery-49 Hollywood Rd, London SW10
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Art 3 are pleased to present 'Off the Map', new paintings by Patricia Wynn Davies. After long and successful career as a journalist, Patricia is relatively new to painting completing her BA at Chelsea School of Art in 2003. Having dealt with facts, order and the sort of linear process of investigation that journalism requires for so long, abstract painting is seen by her as a diametrically opposed exploration.

"Abstraction is not so much about what you see but how you are made to see it - not an original thought of my own, since Bridget Riley made a similar statement years back, but is a key point for me nonetheless and an ongoing factor in the development of my work. Hence this collection of allusive abstract paintings and computer-drawn prints, which proceed from imagination and from points of worldly reference. Using juxtapositions of colour, form, line and gesture to explore experience, interconnection, contradiction and paradox.

The title of this exhibition, 'Off the Map' signifies one point of worldly reference - landscape - that underlies some of the works (I generally number rather than name individual pieces), but in essence this title is a broad rather than specific clue about engagement with the world at large. The reason is that my interest lies is the nature of the language of abstract painting rather than in rendering specific things in abstracted form, i:e the work is like a journey of discovery, a positioning of oneself to relate to ideas rather than to set down the products of ideas.

The works are devices for exploration rather than expression as usually understood - and sometimes exercises in free association, despite much decision-making once the image begins to take shape on the canvas. I call this process a parallel mode of apprehension -carrying out a similar overall function as other forms of language or expression but occupying a different space".

Patricia Wynn Davies
2005

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