06 December 2000 - 20 January 2001
35 Heddon Street, London W1
Victoria Morton, one of an emergent group of artists from Glasgow, produces abstract paintings which are arrangements of conscious and unconscious thought. These inner landscapes use a spatial structure based on optics rather than a single point perspective, to evoke a hallucinatory sense of double vision. Borrowing the idea of continuous composition from music, each painting suggests movement and an unfolding of visual and spatial possibilities.
This new body of work reflects a personal interest in Renaissance and Old Master paintings, where something very beautiful can also be sinister. In Plus and Minus, one of the largest canvases, a dazzling rainbow angel wing - or mechanical bird - is evoked emerging and flickering from a dark mass. Like a poem, the subject of each painting has been richly condensed and examined from an emotive perspective.