Calling In Mary Painting

Rachel Redfern searches for presence through paint, the presence of people past and in the here and now, the presence of landscape and nature in all its ephemeral beauty, the presence of her own spirit with fleeting glimpses of fragility. The soul is revealed through diaphanous glazes of oil paint suggesting distant horizons, the spirit dances in impasto petals of fragile beauty. Time spent in silent contemplation absorbing landscape contrasts with frenetic bouts of activity in the studio, pushing and pulling oil paint, mark making with hands, brushes, pouring ,scraping, revealing, losing. Seeking moments of chance, beauty revealed in the near and far, the vast and the intimate .