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Introduction Arabella Shand’s paintings flicker between worlds. In part, they are rooted in the everyday rituals of her life in a secluded pocket of Wales, and in the views that constantly open up as she walks along old drover’s paths and across sheep-dotted fields. They dwell on things as familiar as the domesticity of the living room or kitchen and as beautiful as the shock of a white farmhouse wall, glimpsed through a lattice of boughs and branches. But her pictures are also suffused with a hint of enchantment, and populated by the symbolism of dreams. The artist shows herself sleeping in the woods, encircled by a chorus of trees. Owls are transformed into hovering mirages, or look out at us with bold eyes. Always, though, these different worlds are animated and bound together by Shand’s extraordinary feeling for light, colour and mood, and for the possibilities of paint.
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Camelias & Rain oil on board 29 x 41cms £850
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Still Life With Staffordshire Dog acrylic on board 63 x 56cm £1695
This exhibition of Shand’s new works displays all her many qualities as an artist. In a picture that sings of the comforts of preparing for bed, and of wrapping a towel around newly-washed hair, a dazzlingly-painted patchwork quilt sets the tone for the intricate visual rhythms of the composition as a whole. And in a work that couples the forms of flower painting with those of landscape, the lushly painted reds, pinks and whites of a majestic bouquet are played off against the subtle, striated bands of pale-yellow and green that articulate an expanse of Welsh meadowland. These are pictures to live with and to return to and that continue to unfold their pleasures long after you first look at them. They have a quiet, enduring magic. – Professor Mark Hallett
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Exhibition opening Saturday 4 June, 12-3pm. Nibbles and fizz. The artist will be in attendance
White Space Art, 72 Fore Street Totnes TQ9 5RU
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Shutting Up Shop Oil on board with Dutch metal 43 x 63cms £1550
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Against the Light acrylic on board 70 x 80cms £1895
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Camelias in the Landscape Oil on board with Dutch metal 29 x 37cms £795
“The inspiration for my paintings is born out of my everyday experiences. Family life, my immediate surroundings and my relationship with the landscape. Arriving from the flatlands of East Anglia, the Welsh landscape hit me like a brick to the chest. I can’t ignore it. I paint to express my feelings for what I love in my life and I paint to process feelings of loss, the death of a pet, or the children leaving home. I am constantly striving to find a better and more succinct way of doing this.” – Arabella Shand
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The Mountain & Her acrylic on board 51 x 40cms £1300
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Late Summer Blooms acrylic on board 22 x 29cms £595
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Winter Garden acrylic on board 21 x 28cms £595
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Dinner Time acrylic on board 16 x 20cms £425
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10 Broad Beans in the Landscape
acrylic on board 21 x 28cms £595
11 Here Come the Girls
acrylic on board 22 x 29cms £595
12 Dusk
acrylic on board 25 x 29cms £650
13 Drifting
oil on board 40 x 61cms £1500
14 Mountain (Triptych)
oil on board with Dutch metal 3 x 43 x 20cms £1550
11 Outrun II
pastel 50 x 55cms
15 Interior With London Bus
acrylic on board 30 x 35cms £750
16 Interior With Amaryllis
acrylic on board 30 x 35cms £750
17 Interior With White Hyacinths
acrylic on board 40 x 51cms £1300
18 Outside Looking In
acrylic on board 29 x 35cms £750
20 Dreamscape (Triptych)
oil on board with Dutch metal 3 x 43 x 20cms £1550
19 Evening Light
Oil on board with Dutch metal 31 x 46cms £950
21 Soar-y-Mynydd
oil on board with Dutch Metal 45 x 50cms £1450
22 Early Spring
acrylic on board 45 x 50cms £1450
23 Who Are You Now?
acrylic on board 40 x 51cms £1350
24 Autumn, Looking West acrylic on board 20 x 64cms £850
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