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artist Fiona Viney works under the philosophy that an art -
work may have a profound transformative effect on the mood of a
room. Her works are decidedly fun while confronting the viewer with
radiant colors and delightful subjects, often animals, peering out from
the work to meet the viewer’s gaze directly.
Viney paints in high contrast with flat applications of color;
it is a style that contains childlike idealism while representing sophisticated
ideas with artistic prowess. Currently, Viney chooses to work
with two separate mediums, which consequently involve two divergent
approaches to her art. “My watercolors cross all the boundaries of conventional
techniques, they are free flowing images born entirely from
my imagination,” she explains. “In contrast I have developed a range
of acrylic and emulsion work that is distinctive and unique.” Viney began
painting at the age of twenty-two, highly experimental and unafraid
to try different subjects and media. She then traveled abroad, living
for a time in New York and Argentina. While overseas, she was greatly
influenced by her experiences and by the fantastic colors she encountered
in North and South America. Upon Viney’s return to England,
she was met with enthusiastic interest in her art; she exhibited heavily
and completed numerous commissioned works. Viney lives and works
in England.
www.fionaviney.com
The work of Marga Duin, a native of
Zandvoort, one of the major beach
resorts of the Netherlands, correspondingly
reflects a fascination with light and
the sea. Her choice of subjects is dichotomous,
being either abstractions of the
sea or gestural drawings of the human
figure, particularly female. Duin’s ab-
Radiance 40” x 60” Acrylic on Canvas
stractions feature forceful yet luminous
color application and are largely geometric,
whereas the graceful contours of her female nudes rise and fall, flowing like water. The quality of her nudes is interesting; she selects parts
of the figure to render, then stops and chooses another selection of the body to delineate in a neighboring area of the image. Sweeping swaths of
color are then applied to bring the divergent sections together, eliminating any conflicting sense of fragmentation.
The exuberance and light of the sea finds its way into “Radiance,” a work that exhibits Duin’s characteristic expressive stroke while
contained in a more geometric framework. The power of this work lies in rich application of color; solid sharply defined geometric shapes combined
with wistful strokes that allow the central masses of color to cede into one another. The visual effect is strong; one can sense an ocean
breeze flowing in from the waters onto and over the comparatively unforgiving coast.
www.marart.nl
Fiona
Viney
Cow Splat 36” x 36” Mixed Media
Marga
Duin