Lorna Robertson: THOUGHTS, MEALS, DAYS

Lorna Robertson: Views, Foods, Days
25 June–17 September 2022
Ingleby
33 Barony Road
Edinburgh, EH3 6NX
United Kingdom

This summer season Ingleby offers an exhibition of new paintings by Glasgow based mostly Lorna Robertson. It will be her initially solo show at the gallery and promises to reveal the impressive assortment and power of her perform across scale and topic, combining monumental canvases with little fragments. Robertson’s gestural, expressive, and yet finely wrought way of portray sales opportunities her into a environment of densely colored and labored pictures which, as she has explained herself ‘sit someplace amongst abstraction and figuration, a tangled sport of hide- and-seek out that plays with the visibility and readability of an picture. I often paint to discover out what to paint, creating harmonies and tensions by means of placement of condition, specificity of colour–the approach itself turning out to be an act of revealing’.

The benefits are curiously hard to pin down – an huge canvas can have a quiet depth and intimacy that ought to be unachievable on this kind of a scale and a tiny collage may well seem to be poised to explode with potential electrical power.

There is typically an undertone of nostalgia, and a conjuring of time and area that appears both of those precise and unreliable. They are paintings that resist quick categorisation, seductive in 1 minute, and obstructive in an additional – seemingly bold, and yet at the same time hesitant – if they are about nearly anything, in a collective perception, they are a celebration of the act and approach of painting and image producing.

©2022 Lorna Robertson, Ingleby