Colour & Light

Figuring light, Colour and The Intangible
Exhibition at Djanogly Art Gallery, Lakeside

After visiting the Figuring light, Colour and the intangible exhibition last week (when I eventually found the place!), there were many different pieces of work that interested me. The one that most attracted me was one by Rebecca Partridge called ‘Dreaming’ shown in the picture. The artist has used different oval shapes and sizes mixed together to get the effect that the shapes to the middle of the painting are further away than the others. The reason this image appealed to me the most was because as I looked closely to the painting I realised that only the colours red, blue and green were used but other colours are emerged as they overlap existing ones. Rebecca Partridge has only used this technique in this piece of work.
Different tints and tones have been used for the shapes and the directions of these shapes are shown cleverly as if they are spinning around, therefore pulling you into the picture. Also, more shapes are gathered towards the center of the piece, which immediately draws attention to the centre where it is just black. As all the shapes get closer to the centre, the stronger the colour and light of them is shown, adding a more bold effect to the art. To aid this the artist uses a dark coloured black background to get the most emphasis from all the colours she has used.
At a first glance of the image, it is like a tunnel and as you go further down the colours become brighter hence the name of this piece which is ‘Dreaming’; it is as you are dreaming to a better future which is more happy and brighter and things can be seen more clearly.
The artist has used colour and light in this piece of work to a very unique way, and mixing different colours to get various blends and tones, therefore making us focus on certain parts of the image more due to this.