left tate right cave
by Maggie Learmonth
6th October - 6th November 2015
Maggie Learmonth’s paintings prompt questions about our relationship with our environment. Her atmospheric, often moody, colours make reference to the canon of romantic landscape painting, with fleeting hints of Turner or Friedrich. They derive from the observation of real places and real people but are more ‘mindscape’ than depictions of place. Her practice also encompasses intermittent text pieces which, whilst playful in nature, may have a more serious underlying aspect
