Thursday, May 25, 2017

"Angela Brennan: Love that moves the sun and the other stars" (Niagara Galleries)

Paintings and earthenware (pots, jars, jugs) all characterised by an enthusiastic, thoughtful approach to colour. The paintings were quite varied within the broad parameters of all being essentially abstract, composed of blocks and swathes of multiple colours, and those colours being translucently gleaming. Very attractive, and several were increasingly interesting as I spent more time with them.


My favourite was "Like a visitor to Earth (II)", the radiating arrangement of its coloured shapes intriguingly suggestive, oriented around the electric blue sphere at its centre (for me, the association is with creativity), coupled with the red shape to its side (in this context, for mine, the colour of passion), with a sun-like figure overhead and something indeterminate but object-like in the foreground, hinting at representation and meaning.