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PAULINE HORRICKS
Moon Shadow 2 Oil on Masonite 32.5” x 60”
The light shimmering across Pauline Horricks’ paintings
has neon highlights suggesting that her still life and
landscape scenes might be unfolding on some distant
planet. These aren’t the warm oranges of the southern sun
or the damp rays of the tropics. The North Ontario native
shows an uncanny sensibility for capturing green, blue,
silver and purple light from the moon as it plays among the
trees and rocks of the Boreal Forest. Horricks harnesses
this light to tease out every detail of surface and texture
in an extremely sharp, stylized beauty. With the moon as
her probing spotlight, she presents the northern forest as a
carefully staged and dramatic scene.
Though Horricks often incorporates great swaths of
darkness into her paintings, these enveloping shadows
allow our attention to wander into her exquisitely rendered
spaces. A meticulous style of application and attention to
detail complements her aesthetic. In the hyper-real lines
and lighting, viewers begin to perceive the smells of the
forest and the sensual profiles of stones, leaves and tree
trunks. Horricks’s ability to conjure memories of distant
forests adds to the uncanny experience of her work.
Presenting familiar scenery cast in a light that seems barely
natural, she creates a landscape that is both surprising and
seductive.
Websites: www.paulinehorricks.com
www.Agora-Gallery.com/Artistpage/Pauline_Horricks.aspx
Inventive colors, gestural lines and approachable
subject matter make the work of Pepi Vegas a uniquely
pleasurable viewing experience. Frequently choosing
imagery directly from everyday life, Vegas’ work transcends
the realm of simple still life to create something greater.
Working in acrylic paint on paper, Vegas’ paintings have a
decidedly human scale, making them easily relatable. Yet
their glistening, jewel-toned colors captivate the viewer,
making them seem magical and almost otherworldly.
By simplifying forms to their barest essentials, often
delineating them with sprightly applied thin strokes of paint,
her works play with the eye, appearing at once completely
abstracted, yet entirely figurative. Equally fascinating is her
masterful dexterity with acrylic paint. Where some works
have a thick, impasto quality, others painted out of the very
same medium appear light and ethereal, as if painted from
watercolor. Vegas’ recurrent depiction of animal and plant
subject matter comes not only from a desire to paint from
life, but reflects her deep passion for nature and humanity’s
detrimental effects upon it. Vegas’ works connect each
viewer to the inherent beauty of the world around us and
serve as an inspiration to protect those things that are most
fragile.
Pepi Vegas has exhibited internationally and lives and
works in Valencia, Spain.
PEPI VEGAS
Obama Touched by a Star Acrylic on Canvas 16” x 39”
Websites: www.pepivegas.com
www.Agora-Gallery.com/ArtistPage/Pepi_Vegas.aspx
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