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Picture Gallery On view June 26 — September 5 Sabina Forbes II:
Sabina Forbes’ work is a warm, uplifting and passionate celebration of colour, expression and release. Surrounded by an awareness of art from an early age and inspired by her maternal grandfather’s own paintings and her paternal grandfather’s diverse art collection, she has returned to painting to explore the ebb and flow of emotions through rich texture and vibrant colour. Forbes has always had a great sensitivity to the human condition, particularly its energy which she observes as it alters moods and states. Her interest in the separation of colours and their relation to each other is confirmed in Forbes’ study of many artists including Cezanne, Gauguin and Matisse. Like these artists, her paintings’ free energy and originality belies their thoughtful construction and structure as carefully demonstrated in her latest beautiful series entitled “Galactic Sea et Al” and in a previous set, “Music and Muse” In her next vibrant series “Conceptual Bodies II” Forbes abstracts and translates this captured energy through rich pigments which evoke the spirit of her carefully flexed figures. Her forms contain a wonderful vitality reminiscent, too, of the Fauves as they revel in the vibrancy of colour, teasing the eye further through juxtaposed textures. Anchored by a strong graphic structure, her abstract pools of vibrant, psychedelic colour in both her series of human figures and in her often joyful non-representationals play across the canvas. The light tremors upon the surface of the paintings, highlighting the areas of colour which dissolve into abstraction; hence a rhythm develops across their planes. An underlying sensuous energy of her anonymous contorting bodies resonate confidence within a kaleidoscope of shimmering colour. Observed from afar, as we do with our own human condition, Forbes’ paintings at once present a sea of vital united energy; yet, when approached, the component shapes separate to reveal a more diverse and fragmented make-up which divulges a greater depth and hidden complexity. For further information, please go to www.sabinaforbesii.com. |
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