Cathy's Art Diary

Vibrant exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery South of new work by Cecily Brown. These big, bold, expressive paintings were inspired by the area around the gallery and showed abstracted vegetation and were shown with previous works dating back to 2001 covering similar themes. I loved how bright and lively they were and how they dominated the white space. They were shown with some of her drawing showcasing that she draws everyday often responding to illustrations in children's books. There was a useful leaflet which included interesting quotes from the artist making it fell like she was showing you around such as "I don’t have a central message to get across, so the subject is always just painting and how to push painting. I'm thoroughly absorbed by that". I will certainly look out for her work in the future. Checking this blog I've realised she did the wonderful new paintings around the top of the staircase at the Courtauld Gallery   Closes 6 September 2...

Interesting exhibition at the Thomas Dane Gallery of small works by Cecily Brown of studio scenes. I had come across Brown as the huge new paintings at the top of the Courtauld staircase so it was interesting to see smaller works by her. These were dense images which were slightly hard to make out so your eye and brain started to find subjects within them. They felt quite course close up but an interesting effect. There were a few of nudes which had a Sickert feel to them. Closed 17 December 2022