argaret Atkinson solo exhibition of work showing at Senzala - French creperie bar & cafe full exhibition showing from 15th March until 6 April 2014 - open every day from 10am to 6pm = late nights Thursday, Friday & Saturday. Open view to meet the artists Saturday 22nd March - 2.45 to 4.45 pay bar - free craperie to the first 8 arivals. Tulips from Amsterdam - 1996 - 2014 which is now a sequence of over three hundred works of painting, drawing, installations, printing, digital and etching whose inception lay in a two and half day trip there. Margarets previous work was abstract painting and printing, using images of elephants and old lace as her source material, subsequently, she became enchanted when she encountered what was to become known to her, as the elephant bar in Amsterdam. she says A mural of two elephants adorned the wall of this bar and a Turkish lantern gave a beautiful lace pattern across the whole of this area. This serendipity experience haunted me when I got back to London and started me on a journey which I still find fascinating. In her work she journeys from the streets and canals of Amsterdam, to the Ottoman Empire and of course Turkey where the Tulip is the national flower.The Tulip series is embracing the design aspect of her quilting days in America. She also admires the early Netherlands,Turkish and of course our own William Morriss designs. The work showing in this exhibition is mostly from the Bar series and In her work Margaret picks up on the issues of gender, identity and fragility of the human psyche. I am concerned to develop the works even more within these series of individual works that visit the sites of the history of my own imagination and experience, and those of a collective, social and political history. Always looking for new forms of expression, new challenges within her fine art practice have taken her forward to create a deeper layer of work. work by Margaret Atkinson Prices from £50.00 to ££1,000.which is now a...See More
Posted on: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 10:22:16 +0000
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