LORRAINE WAKE
My paintings of interiors develop associations with time and place, where everyday objects suggest intimacy yet without human presence. Colour evokes mood and the layered surfaces reveal a history of process. A memory. The compositions arouse curiousity and invite questions about what may have happened or what is about to begin. My 2011 'Lost in an illusory Landscape' paintings are a natural progression from my ‘interiors’, some of which had no sense of being confined of recogniseable boundaries, walls or ceilings. These are open abstracted fields of natural form and colour and like the sky, ground or water capture little jewels or facets, where the whole or the unformed is manifest into the specific. These ‘dreamscapes’ provide a luxurious bed upon which possibilities may occur, an arena for contemplation where the layers of applied paint seem to peel back time. The gift of space reveals an inner openess where dreams and memories can take place. A space in which one can get lost.
