Linden Lea

Fisher, James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0800-5175 (2022) Linden Lea. [Show/Exhibition]

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Abstract

Exhibition at Eagle Gallery London With publication including texts by Martin Holman and Olivia Bax, Linden Lea explores ideas about art, memory and the imagination, through an overarching theme of landscape, in a body of work developed over the last two years that ranges from large oil on linen canvases to miniature oil paintings on panel. Fisher’s paintings are at once hermetic and broad reaching. The paintings’ flattened out decorative schematics reference Japanese and Persian aesthetics and are often made over gold grounds into which idiosyncratic elements are introduced. Colour is heightened to an almost hallucinatory register and strange happenings take place within thickly leafed arboretums. In a text for the exhibition Martin Holman describes the cumulative effect of Fisher’s paintings as having ‘something of the character of cantos or movements in a symphony that build a narrative or overarching theme.’. Painted in series their lush layers and textures celebrate a sense of nature apprehended – ‘Fisher’s new paintings express a spirit of place that exists between eye and mind, memory and imagination.’

Item Type:	Show/Exhibition
Subjects:	N Fine Arts > ND Painting
Divisions:	Schools and Research Institutes > School of Creative Arts
Depositing User:	James Fisher
Date Deposited:	25 Feb 2025 14:11
Last Modified:	25 Feb 2025 14:11
URI:	https://eprints.glos.ac.uk/id/eprint/14784

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