Connections & Associations
Exhibition dates: 7 October - 11 November
Talk - Sat 28 October, 2pm
‘My work, my process, my inspiration’ -
Lin Cheung talks about her work history, her practice and her inspiration behind her current exhibition at Cupola Gallery.
Cupola is delighted to present Lin Cheung, an abstract artist, author and teacher who is interested in the unique individuality of experience, metaphor and symbol, for her first solo show at the gallery.
Connections and Associations is a series of new, contemporary, abstract works for the viewer’s imagination to explore.
Lin draws on her experience as a psychotherapist and understanding of metaphor, symbolism and unconscious associations and meaning. Some of the key ideas in her work are about nature, archaeology and time, juxtaposed with the continuity of place and human experience. They emerge in the way she makes use of texture, paint handling and line.
Lin works in mixed media, including acrylic paint combined with pencil crayon, oil pastel and sometimes collage. She begins with intuitive mark-making, allowing the painting to evolve from the process of the work holding her central themes in mind.
Creative Connections by Lin Cheung - a 30 day sketchbook challenge. £12.50 each.
Karen Sherwood, founder and director of Cupola Gallery, said:
"We are delighted to host Lin Cheung's first solo show with the gallery. She has a wonderful ability to create structured, simple compositions rich with layers of interesting marks made using various media. The images are clearly built up over time, which creates both depth and intrigue with colours and marks softened and highlighted, covered and revealed. Each piece uses a limited colour palette in order to heighten our emotional response to each work. Her palette varies from quite cool yellow, blue and grey tones through to rich reds and browns. A bold use of black often adds a dynamism to individual pieces. Drawn lines cut through and intersect the surfaces of broader painted blocks of colours. Your eye is encouraged to wander and explore the surface but from a distance the effect of the whole evokes an unconscious emotional response or association. Paintings to spend time with. " Karen Sherwood, Director
