Rose Rose
HAVERFORDWEST, Pembrokeshire.
Landscape with figuration. References to Celtic Myth with questions raised about 'invisible links' between the ancient and modern world. 10 Prints and 10 Collages available to buy.
Links
'MYTHOLOGICAL LANDSCAPES?'1, 2 ,3 & 4.
Carl Jung: The 'Archetype' is the overwhelming force in Nature: from it Myth emerges that are pre-eminently a social phenomenon "told by the many, heard by the many"....
My current visual art practice has been inspired by the Celtic Anthropology of West Wales where I live in Pembrokeshire. For me it is the Traditional/Modern aspects of these past cultures that have informed a sense of interconnecteness between Ancient History and aspects of dialy life in the here and now. In terms of power struggles and 'ethics' many issues are the same in Celtic Myth as in the contemporary 'Western' world of 2023.
Responding to the Welsh Tale The Mabinogion [S.Davies: 2008. An interpretation of British History] I present a series of recent images as both paintings and drawings, with titles taken from specific texts. Calling them 'MYTHOLOGICAL LANDSCAPES?'1, 2 , 3 & 4. [2020-23]. I have also asked the question about the timelessness of Myth,in the broadest sense. I have added my view to the imagery of the Jungian idea of the individual's struggle between the Anima and Animus; issues of collective behavior and notions of the hidden 'Archetypes' in the traditional Welsh story.
As such, it is a continuation of previous Fine Art projects which have a Social History content as well as a personal [archetypal ] "the quest for identity".A second series of ten collages to be shown as a group at the Narberth Museum, Narberth, Pembrokeshire : January 2022-March 2023.There are a series of 10 prints in black and white and 10 collages in colour.All imagery is inspired by the Druidstone and Ty Canol landscapes and many images have their compositions based on small areas of coastal geography, which also influence the choice of colour schemes.
Form and Contect;
I have used two dimensional abstract methods called stratigraphy to make my paintings, collages and drawings. This process mimics a kind of geological layering using pigment and paper and collage.A final image emerges over a period of time which the viewer is invited to contemplate.... can a level of a level of liminality be reached? This is for the viewer to decide....and chose between colour or black and white. The fianl images are presnted as 'Assemblages'.
Summary:
Visually influenced by the Europen art work of Anselm Kiefer;Gerhard Richter and Mimmo Paladino, I too seek ways to 'untie the Gordian Knot.'
Some images available to view at Narberth Museum: November 2022.A survey of the scope of this visual project has been written by the former Art Critic of The Times- John Russell Taylor. It will be included in the mini catalogue for the exhibition.
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