Landscape III
£700.00
Landscape III
Oil on canvas
60″ x 48″
2020
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It’s an in-between-ness that resonates with the Japanese concept of Ma because Orkney is an ‘edge’ environment that exists in the in-between spaces. In the aesthetic of Ma, negative space is given equal importance to actual space and this underpins the artist’s painting and sculptural work.
Weather Shapes
£400.00
Weather Shapes
Oil on canvas
30″ x 24”
2020
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The view from where Louise Barrington lives overlooks Scapa Flow and is never still. It’s a continuous flow of movement, rhythm and changing patterns brought on by the weather and the seasons that permeate her artistic practice. “I will always be informed by it as I am part of it” she says.
Seascape IV
£400.00
Seascape IV
Oil on canvas 30″ x 24”
2020
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Writer Edwin Muir stated of his youth in Orkney that it was ‘a place where there was no great distinction between ordinary and fabulous.’ This everyday ordinary/fabulous blur allows for wonderful artistic expression because the normal rules of optics and physics don’t apply.
Seascape V
£400.00
Seascape V
Oil on canvas
30″ x 24”
2020
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In her own words: “It takes into consideration the space between two distinct markers of space and time. Observing the everyday, a knowing and unknowing we experience in our everyday ordinary/fabulous”.
Weather Patterns II
£400.00
Weather Patterns II
Oil on canvas
30″ x 24”
2020
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This poetry of Orkney inspires her use of colour, and the fluidity of her work aims to capture this characteristic of the landscape. The underlying energy that is prevalent in Orkney’s open spaces, the quality of light, especially at the ‘in-between’ times of twilight, dawn and dusk, have always greatly influenced her output.
Weather Patterns III
£400.00
Weather Patterns III
Oil on canvas
30″ x 24”
2020
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New work by Louise Barrington continues in the same vein. It’s a direct response to the landscape of her native Orkney in all its capricious moods: the quiet, beach- bleached pastels, flat calm mornings which, with little provocation can whip up into wild and tumultuous afternoons. She’s very much part of the landscape too. She now works from her studio at Wasps, Stromness.
