Here & There Ici et lĂ
Cover: A Perfect Day Acrylic and mixed media on linen, 100 cm x 120 cm
Tracy Levine
The Gallery at Rheged 9th February to 9th March 2014 The Gallery at Rheged Rheged, Penrith Cumbria CA11 0DQ www.rheged.com 01768 860033 www.tracylevine.co.uk
Here & There Ici et lĂ
Tracy Levine ‘Painting in a field of poppies or on a stormy, heather-covered moor is an emotional and exhilarating experience for me’ Award-winning Cumbrian artist Tracy Levine brings together a new collection of her paintings for Here & There, the first solo show at The Gallery at Rheged. The works in this exhibition were produced during a period working in and around Swaledale in Yorkshire and, by contrast, in the hilltop villages of the Languedoc region of South West France. Although inspired by quite different rural landscapes, Levine’s works have mainly been created through working ‘en plein air’ - whether in open moorlands, in vineyards, in wildflower meadows or on village streets. Levine’s paintings are a direct emotional response to these environments: her expressive use of vibrant colour vividly conjures up a distinctive sense of place and feeling. Levine describes her practice as one of ‘being totally immersed in the landscape’. Revisiting the same locations again and again, painting from dawn until dusk, allows her to ‘tune in to the essence of a place’. Here & There expresses the particular pleasure she takes in losing herself in a landscape, and evoking its specific atmosphere, its colour and light.
Here & There Ici et là
Yorkshire Dales
Purple Heaven Acrylic on linen, 100cm x 100cm
Dales 1 Acrylic and mixed media, 26cm x 26cm
Over the Top Acrylic and mixed media, 21cm x 21cm Dales 3 Acrylic and mixed media, 26cm x 26cm
Dales 4 Acrylic and mixed media, 29cm x 29cm
Barn in every ďŹ eld Acrylic and mixed media, 40cm x 40cm
Dales 5 Acrylic and mixed media, 27cm x 27cm
Over the Moors Acrylic and mixed media, 39.5cm x 39.5cm
Under the Sky Acrylic and mixed media, 29cm x 29cm
Dales at Dusk Acrylic on linen, 90cm x 90cm
Dales 2 Acrylic and mixed media, 31cm x 31cm
Dales 6 Acrylic and mixed media, 30cm x 30cm Return from the Moor Acrylic and mixed media, 20cm x 20cm
Languedoc, France
Duilhac 1 Acrylic and mixed media on linen, 90cm x 90cm
Duilhac Monoprint, collograph and mixed media, 31cm x 31cm
Cucugnan 1 Acrylic and mixed media on linen, 60 cm x 60 cm
Pyrenean Village Acrylic and mixed media, 31cm x 31cm
Duilhac-sous-Peyrepertuse Acrylic and mixed media, 30cm x 30cm
Blue Doors Acrylic and mixed media, 30cm x 20cm
Blue Balcony Acrylic and mixed media, 30cm x 20cm
View 2 Acrylic and mixed media, 24cm x 18.5cm
Village Sky Acrylic and mixed media, 24cm x 18.5cm
Paziols Rooftops Acrylic and mixed media, 39cm 39cm
Paziols Church Acrylic and mixed media, 32cm x 32cm
Meadow Acrylic and mixed media, 13cm x 40cm
Poppy 2 Acrylic and mixed media, 13cm x 40cm
Poppy Field Acrylic and mixed media, 40cm x 40cm
Languedoc Acrylic and mixed media, 40cm x 40cm
Black Mountains Mixed media, 23cm x 23cm
Š Copyright images: Tracy Levine 2013
www.tracylevine.co.uk