VISTAS: Group show at Myo New Street Square

The artworks in this show are situated along the thin and hazy boundary that separates our internal landscape from the external. Complex topographies become analogous with the boundlessness of our emotions. We’re walked hand-in-hand by the perennial traditions of landscape and abstract painting through this show where form simultaneously dissolves and emerges. The artists shown in this exhibition are graduates of a year-long advanced course in abstract painting led by painter and curator Johanna Melvin at the Essential School of Painting, London. Known as ESOP, the school is an artist-led Art School, dedicated to advancing studio practice for both emerging and established painters, offering courses taught by leading contemporary painters. The effect of these works is such that scenes turn into memory and dreams into waking life.

Artists:

Born 1962,  Beryl White graduated with a Degree in Aplied Social Science from Lancaster University in 1983 and subsequently trained at Goldsmith's and The Middlesex Hospital as a mental health social worker. After working in this field, she lived in San Francisco, and now has three adult children. She became interested in making art in her 40s, eventually taking an MFA at Bath School of Art and Design at the age of 51. Since graduating in 2016 she has had a successful exhibition at R.K. Burt in London and has a forthcoming exhibiton in St Ives, Cornwall. Her work explores ways in which thought is made material and often reflects her interest in the field of mental health.

Conchita Lucas is a painter predominantly, but loves drawing and generally work out ideas through drawing initially exploring a concept, theme, colour, proportion and mark making. She likes to create work that has a depth of meaning that is personal to her and has a visceral connection that she's searching for. Colour is a key driver in her work where she spend lots of time mixing and thinking about colour. She works with a range of media but usually in oils or acrylic on canvas which tends to oscillate between the figurative or abstraction depending on what she's working on.

Elizabeth Galbraith

Elizabeth Richardson

Esther Hardie

Gillian Harding

Lou Mumford

Non Worrall's approach to painting is essentially eclectic, ranging freely over as wide a variety of techniques, mediums and approaches as she can discover. She experiments to find appropriate ways to capture and represent the subjects she selects. These arise in response to what she sees and feel in response to both the natural and human domains while the techniques she adopt are strongly influenced by the work of artists, ancient and modern, whose output she admires. The final product frequently results from a series of happy accidents, often far removed from her initial thoughts and planning but always focused on exploring conjunctions and dissonances between colour and texture

Paula Baldwin