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Dolly Thompsett, Night Landing (Blue)
Dolly Thompsett creates sensuous, intricate paintings by building up layers of paint interspersed with glassy resin laminates that allow images to weave through the surface of her canvases. Her detailed rendering of people, objects and landscapes, and her mysterious atmospheres and glistening textures, are inspired by the traditions of Romantic painting fused with the high-gloss of Hollywood movies. By taking as their starting point photographs of both historical and recent events where ordinary people are overcome by extraordinary circumstances, her paintings articulate a moment of transformation or transcendence filtered through the artist's own reflections on the medium of painting. Layering together special effects to create a sense of the epic, each of Thompsett's works is simultaneously rendered intimate through her use of paint, and familiar through her sampling of popular visual culture. Thompsett's new paintings of intensely charged moments are set against the 'eternal' nature of the universe, and are also reflections on the limitations of representational painting. Dark voids, celestial sweeps and misty phosphorescence engulf traces of narrative within her work. In her...
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