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Developing HorizonsTRANSCRIPT
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HENRIETTA DUBREY Developing Horizons
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Front: Design Oil on Canvas 52 x 58 cm
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Developing Horizons
Various influences have featured strongly in the development of my painting since ʻFrom Abstractionʼ, my first solo show atEdgar Modern. The paintings in ʻDeveloping Horizonsʼ follow suite, in that I am still intrigued by working simultaneously onfigurative and abstract pieces, and I feel that the dialogue between them is becoming ever stronger.
As a painter, I find myself constantly fascinated with the process of life, how one comes to terms with situations, reacts tosituations; and especially, within my method of working and thinking, I am keen to see the outcome that is produced,almost subconsciously, in the final stages of my paintings. For me the power of description is equally expressed whetherdescribed in purely abstract terms, i.e. form, space and colour, or by depiction of the human form. Painting is a solitaryoccupation; hours are spent alone, ones mind free to explore spaces in which to create something out of nothing. Thecreative process begins and with the first brush stroke something is born, which one can nurture and develop, rather likeone would a child, in to a meaningful end product. Whether this product is beautiful, aesthetic, powerful or provocativereveals its personal story in its eventual outcome.
A couple of exhibitions in particular which I have seen this year provoked particular thought processes which I havecarried with me in to the studio. ʻSimon Since Fujiwaraʼ at Tate St Ives (spring 2012), and Picasso and Modern British Artat Tate Britain during the summer, the first of which rekindled my love of Patrick Heronʼs 1950-60ʼs stripe paintings and thesecond, in which Picassoʼs unique female forms, their succinct vitality and voluptuousness, the strength of which never failto send shivers down my spine. Experimentation with coloured stripes, and discovering how different juxtapositions ofcolours, and different palettes, become evocative of certain emotions; considerations as to how they in some way relate toones everyday comings and goings I found fascinating, as I carried out what I would describe as the occasionalautomatism in my method of painting, i.e. the process that happens when nothing is premeditated; the line, form andcolour you choose that day is purely instinctive, and therefore what one produces is somehow the truest indication of theprofoundness of ones own personal experience. Similarly the figures are drawn from the same depths, the social standingof the artist, the woman, the mother, lover and social being exposed in the rawest and rudest way, i.e. the naked truth,sometimes literally when the nude is depicted, where there is nothing to hide behind, with consequent exposure. With theexpressive gestures I am trying to capture a feeling of how something is or feels.
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Hopefully a continuing dialogue is apparent between these two genres, by the marks I make, the textures I create and mypalette. It is my aspiration that the work presents itself as a body of work which has not only broadened, but continues todevelop my horizons.
The following poignant quotes from Patrick Heron, Space in Colour, 1953, describe salient points which I feel apply to myartistic process:
“In painting, space and form are not actual, as they are in sculpture, but illusory.”
“Colour is the utterly indispensable means for realising the various species of pictorial space.”
“Spacial colour is, however, a grammar: the language of space in colour can doubtless be made to express anything thatstirs in the consciousness of man.”
Henrietta Dubrey September 2012
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ActionOil on Canvas 52 x 58 cm
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EditorOil on Canvas115 x 136 cm
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SaunaOil on Canvas 39 x 30 cm
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SecretaryOil on Canvas 80 x 37 cm
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Sur L’HerbeOil on Canvas127 x 107 cm
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TuesdayOil on Canvas 120 x 96 cm
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Slow MotionOil on Canvas 64 x 82 cm
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LibrarianOil on Canvas 80 x 37 cm
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No WorriesOil on Canvas 48 x 36 cm
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LevantOil on Canvas 45 x 55 cm
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WinterOil on Canvas 48 x 38 cm
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OutsiderOil on Canvas 97 x 87 cm
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SummerOil on Canvas 42 x 35 cm
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ArchitectOil on Canvas 28 x 22 cm
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OasisOil on Canvas 75 x 89 cm
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GazeOil on Canvas 41 x 35 cm
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GatheringOil on Canvas 99 x 98 cm
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LeswiddenOil on Canvas 27 x 35 cm
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MajestyOil on Canvas 136 x 115 cm
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Control Oil on Canvas 82 x 55 cm
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AtlanticOil on Canvas 70 x 93 cm
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Wild GreenOil on Canvas 52 x 65 cm
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CentredOil on Canvas 140 x 95 cm
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Coffee Morning Oil on Canvas 150 x 105 cm
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The ArtistOil on Canvas 39 x 31 cm
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BarnoonOil on Canvas 20 x 25 cm
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DecorOil on Canvas 30 x 38 cm
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GarmentOil on Canvas 89 x 75 cm
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AttractionOil on Canvas 35 x 21 cm
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NarrativeOil on Canvas 80 x 193 cm
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BrideOil on Canvas 80 x 42 cm
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Bossa NovaOil on Canvas 30 x 38 cm
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BlushOil on Canvas 64 x 82 cm
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AudienceOil on Canvas 23 x 28 cm
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AccentOil on Canvas 28 x 9 cm
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CompositionOil on Canvas 63 x 86 cm
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Ecstasy Oil on Canvas 69 x 89 cm
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Intermezzo Oil on Canvas 52 x 38 cm
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Window Oil on Canvas 78 x 65 cm
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Athlete Oil on Canvas 69 x 89 cm
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Henrietta Dubrey
Biography
Born 1966 Sussex, EnglandCurrently lives in west Penwith, Cornwall
Solo Exhibitions
2011 Henrietta Dubrey at Skandium LondonFrom Abstraction… Edgar Modern Gallery Bath
2007 Colour to White Belgrave Gallery St Ives (Catalogue) Lynne Strover Gallery Fen Ditton Cambridge
2005 Paintings Belgrave Gallery St Ives Cornwall (Catalogue)2004 New Work Belgrave Gallery St Ives Cornwall 2003 Lynne Strover Gallery Fen Ditton Cambridge 2002 Recent Paintings Belgrave Gallery St Ives Cornwall (Catalogue)1990,92,95,98,2001 Star Gallery Lewes East Sussex1993 Drew Gallery Canterbury Kent
Joint Exhibitions
2012 Journey and Discovery with Stella Maris Stoneman Gallery Penzance2010 Three Painters with Sue Kennington and Mary Mabbutt Belgrave Gallery St Ives2008 With Gareth Edwards & Clare Wardman Hilton Young Penzance
With Marion Taylor The Rainyday Gallery Penzance2006 With Liz Hough & Nancy Pickard The Rainyday Gallery Penzance2005 With Fergus Hilton The Rainyday Gallery Penzance2003 With Russell Hedges The Rainyday Gallery Penzance1993 The Royal Academy Young Masters with Alan Parker and Jonathan Huxley Crane Gallery London
Selected Group Exhibitions
Represented in various group exhibitions between 1991 and 2012 at the following galleries: Belgrave St Ives, Stoneman Gallery, Penzance, Market House Gallery, Marazion; Rainyday Gallery, Penzance; Penwith Society of Arts, St Ives; Lemon Street Gallery, Truro; Somerville Gallery, Plymouth; Sherborne House, Dorset; Josie Eastwood, Hampshire; Lynne Strover, Cambridge; Shirley Crowther, Ditchling; Star Gallery, Lewes; Charleston Farmhouse, Sussex; Rye Art Gallery, Sussex; Royal Academy Summer Exhibition; Gallery 7, Hong Kong;
Collections
De Beers London, The Old Bank Hotel Oxford, Twofour Group, private collections in the UK and Europe.
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CityOil on Canvas 36 x 48 cm
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Edgar Modern Bartlett St, Bath, BA1 2EETelephone: 01225 443 746 Email: [email protected]