Barbara Tuck: 'Orients and Mortals'
A recent exhibition at Anna Miles Gallery. The curator was fine with me taking snapshots of the paintings I liked (i.e. all of them...):
Barbara Tuck has been at work on paintings indebted to specific ecologies for the past decade. Each year she has made autumnal trips to wild places before returning to the studio to distill her experiences. Over this period she has partaken of a geological and vegetative feast. Previous paintings have referred to single locations only, but in Orients and Mortals, Tuck has given herself license to riffle across the full variety of geographies she has immersed herself in to date.
Notes:
-Patchwork / collage aesthetic
-Illustrative, representational images meshed with patterns, abstraction, colour fields. Like a wide painterly vocabulary.
-Colour palette - consistent across the suite of works
-Size of canvas, amount of detail - also consistent
-Composition - organic? Balanced but doesn't looked 'planned'
