Events & Online Exhibitions
Zuleika Gallery - Vibrant Journeys in Paint: Arabella Ross and Carrie Stanley - (23rd June 2022 – January 2023)
23rd June 2022 – January 2023
Stables Café, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, OX20 1UL
Zuleika Gallery is delighted to announce its next exhibition at the Stables Café at Blenheim Palace, Vibrant Journeys in Paint, an exhibition that brings together two contemporary artists, Arabella Ross and Carrie Stanley. Vibrant Journeys in Paint will be open to the public from 23rd June and continues until January 2022. Both artists’ work is full of energy, colour and expression and is informed by personal narrative and memories. Stories are weaved through the paintings and glimpsed by the viewer. These artists are united not only by their use of memory and narrative but are also connected by their process, which is organic and to some extent automatic for each. The materiality of the work for both artists is extremely important with energetic mark making as paint is liberally smeared, smudged or poured. Arabella comments: “Carrie’s work is beautifully expressive; her use of her paint, subject matter and mark making. To exhibit together at Blenheim Palace is an exciting opportunity for us both.” The paintings are almost dreamlike narratives. Suggestion is prioritised over realism for these artists as they transmute the representational world into their own personal semi abstract worlds. Motifs and images are layered – some submerged and others floating in an almost Chagallian fantasy. Both artists work on a large scale which lends itself well to the Stables Café. Carrie comments “Arabella’s work echoes my own search for balancing the light and dark of human experience through the absolute joy of painting and I’m very excited to be showing alongside her.”
https://zuleikagallery.com/exhibitions/100-vibrant-journeys-in-paint/overview/
Carrie Stanley Wild Card Up My Sleeve, 2022 oil on linen 120 x 92 cm
Arabella Ross Entering into the garden of Earthly delights, 2021 signed and dated oil on canvas 152 x 122 cm
