19 MARCH - 11 MAY 2013
VICTORIA
ACHACHE QUEST GALLERY
“The sweeping lines and luscious colour of Matisse in his later south of France years are visible in Victoria Achache’s paintings, prints and drawings. Victoria was always a colourist and her semiabstract figures appear in and out of singing yellow, red, green and blue abstract shapes. The ideas that she previously explored in painting are now being developed through printmaking, colour and line adapted where appropriate as she works.
Whereas many printmakers become obsessed with technique at the expense of ideas, Achache concentrates on her good draughtsman- ship and love of colour, using whatever technique suits her at the time. A large drypoint shows figures in movement across the composition with blue and rust-brown-pink in between the figures. It is the movement that is new in her work. The drawings have always been good but this line in movement brings her
closer to the late Matisse, yet stamps her work as definitevly Victoria Achache.” Heather Waddell.
Above ‘Figures in an Interior’ 2005-6 Oil on Canvas 127 x 153 cm
Forms emerge f ro m t h e g l o w and then dissolve again..
Above ‘Two Passing Figures’ 2012 Oil on Canvas 102 x 148 cm Bellow ‘Trees and Sea 2012 Oil on Canvas 76 x 91 cm
Victoria Achache lives and works in London. She paints figures of great suggestive qualities. Mysterious and yet colourful, where the highlights of colour are of a tonal range to pose questions, rather than explain: ‘Dark fire lurks within the gene pool of British painters. Victoria Achache has mastered it. She is becoming a great colourist, one whose forms emerge from the glow and dissolve within again. Her human presences are at once domestic and monumental, in the way of good Henry Moores. They are placed with an eye to the formality of old portraits, be they paintings or photographs. They are awesome to the viewer and to each other. It is as if you must recognise, when life is pared back to its visual elements, that human beings are creatures of light while light lasts for them. Colour only exists between two darknesses and the dark is always trying to breakthrough.’ Lord Gowrie.
QUEST GALLERY Specializing in contemporary fine and applied arts Quest Gallery has been established in Bath since 2004. Situated in the most vibrant gallery quarter of Bath nestled between the Circus and the Royal Crescent with a wide range of artistic influence together with bustling restaurants and other independent retailers this area of Bath is a certain destination for lovers of Fine Art.
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Above ‘Figure Lying Down 2012 Oil on Canvas 81 x 122 cm