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Review Dec 03 2008 « | »
Lara Viana at Lost and Found This morning I met up wit the artist Lara Viana and went to see the group show she is......

James Honey

This morning I met up wit the artist Lara Viana and went to see the group show she is currently in at the Blyth Gallery in South Kensington. The other two artists exhibiting are Dominic Kennedy and Rachel Thorlby.

I am unable to recall the first time that I saw the work of Lara, however I am able to vividly remember the impact it made on me. Her thin layers of sweeping and murky colours twisting and forming in an almost liquid like surface drew me in immediately. She manages to capture the sense of a 'moment' superbly in her art due to her rapid way of working, wiping away, re working and the cutting of bold lines through the paint with her brush. Her work is formed from found images, fractured and misty memories and places uprooted and planted somewhere in the dappled back of her mind now nearly forgotten. In a sense she is painting the curious location that sits sandwiched in between the 'lost and found'.

Her treatment of the paint is what excites my interest most of all. Her graceful and somehow melancholic gestural strokes seem to be made not so much from her hand or the brush but from her gestural wrist actions that nudge aside the colour and let the base layer sing through.

Lost and Found will be running until December 19th and is a great introduction into the work of the three artists. For more information click here.

Lara will also be showing a couple of her paintings in the New Contemporaries which starts on December 6th and runs until January 11th. There will be a bounty of exciting art on show. For more information about the New Conteporaries 2008 then click here.

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