Saturday 12th June – Saturday 26th June
The exhibition will open to the public on Saturday 12th June with an informal reception all day.
Representing diverse styles and practices, Anita Klein is mainly a printmaker who creates luscious, sensuous, linear etchings, woodcuts and linocuts mainly of voluptuous, cherubic women in either autobiographical or fantasy scenes.
Nigel Swift, her husband, on the other hand, makes representational expressive, impasto pastel and oil works on paper and canvas of landscapes under atmospheric pressure or varied weather conditions – a classic landscape artist.
If we read these works, we could say that Anita, the wife, dreams of far away, fairytale & fantasy while her husband is rooted in the actual, the way things are on a daily basis – and that may be the manner in which his view point is framed by the changing landscape of weather. Interestingly enough, Swift relies on observational methods to derive form and composition in his seemingly abstract works, whereas Klein meticulously composes the position of figures in accordance with orientation of paper and other incorporated characters. Both methods require that influence of the hand of the artist that is unmistakable in medium, style and tone. The printmaking method is laborious in that it requires quite intensive process and order, while the painting and drawing with pastels or oils is more automotive in many ways – more plugged into the cerebrum, as the artist needs to directly interpret a view, an atmosphere and observation in order to represent it so in accurate terms.
Neither opposes or detracts, but simply flesh out aspects of creative technique and process, and offer the viewer the chance to compare and contrast the work of a duo that live and work as husband and wife. Their enduring appeal is certainly due to a classical grounding while making work in a contemporary manner.
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