Lisa Traxler
Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
www.lisatraxler.com
Lisa Traxler draws on both emotional and physical points of reference to construct a visual narrative across island landscapes. She works and reworks her ideas, paints and over-paints, layering and texturing. The tension in her work derives in part from experience of arriving and departing, from struggling with the unfamiliar and finding a language to embrace this. This in turn nourishes new, intimate ways of negotiating points of encounter and ways of seeing the island. The result is collision rather than simple experiment in colour and this unites both calm and unrest, continuity and rupture, a sense of secure and insecure locations, but surfaces in an ability to accept contradiction in her art. She has not only crossed the water, but she is painting the island, reinventing it and unfixing it to reveal unfamiliar topographies.
Tony Escasany 2008
Works Exhibited
- The Crypt (former Mariners) Gallery, 2012:
- Cat No 85: "Static Land" 33x43cms
- Cat No 86: "Fine Morning" 33x43cms
- Cat No 87: "Within Reach" 33x43cms
Prizewinner: COLART AWARD (Winsor & Newton/Liquitex) - Cat No 88: "Spiritual Current" 100x80cms
- The Williamson Art Gallery & Museum, 2011:
- Cat No 101: "Return to Me" 60x80cms
- The Crypt (former Mariners) Gallery, 2010:
- Cat No 97: "Singing of the World" 94 x 94 cms
Prizewinner: GLOBAL ART SUPPLIES GOLDEN AWARD - Cat No 98: "Empty Spaces Hold so much Content Part 1" 54 x 74 cms
Prizewinner: GLOBAL ART SUPPLIES GOLDEN AWARD - Cat No 99: "Empty Spaces Hold so much Content Part 2" 54 x 74 cms
Prizewinner: GLOBAL ART SUPPLIES GOLDEN AWARD
- Cat No 97: "Singing of the World" 94 x 94 cms
- View Two Gallery Liverpool, 2009:
- Cat No 78: "Channel" 100 x 100
Prizewinner: FINE ART TRADE GUILD AWARD - Cat No 79: "Allegiance to Myself" 100 x 100
Prizewinner: FOR CATALOGUE NOS. 78 & 79
- Cat No 78: "Channel" 100 x 100
- Obsidian Art, 2008:
- Cat No 86: "Long Distance Studies I" 72 x 87 cms
Prizewinner: WINSOR & NEWTON AWARD - Cat No 87: "Long Distance Studies II" 72 x 87 cms
Prizewinner: AWARD FOR PAINTINGS Nos. 86 - 91 - Cat No 88: "Guided by the Shore" 69 x 85 cms
- Cat No 89: "Monks Beach" 69 x 85 cms
- Cat No 90: "Go Beyond" 69 x 85 cms
- Cat No 91: "Follow me Home" 69 x 85 cms
- Cat No 86: "Long Distance Studies I" 72 x 87 cms