Heather Duncan brings us powerful abstract landscapes saturated with forceful and unexpected colours. Duncans art, in high-pitched colour, is contemporary abstract painting at its most liberated. It celebrates the emotional appeal of colour and
revels in the sensuousness of paint. The rich reds and blushing pinks sing, in many instances they are fielded within acres of cool, pearly blues or luminous turquoise-greens. Application is conspicuously various; here lush and generous, there sparse
and lean.
Her vocabulary is wide and effective, especially the ability to lose and find edges or emphasise them with nervy or idly trailing lines; to abut ponderous masses one against the other and her persistent overpainting is admirable.
Titles intrigue. Whatever the subject or source, its personal meaning or resultant poetry, Duncan dextrously and intelligently exploits her medium.
This is painting as process in all its affecting poetry, tactility, and unpredictability. The
painting as subject - not painting of a subject - however poignant the title.
These are not picture-postcard landscapes; they are full of emotion. Joy, yearning, wistfulness and above all a fierce love of the open air are expressed in
Duncan's painting.
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