Ragwort © 2011 Alison Day. All Rights Reserved
Botanical & Natural Studies 2010-2011
Limelight Gallery
Lewisham Library
Catford, London
February 28 – April 6, 2012
This exhibition features the watercolor paintings and pencil drawings of artist Alison Day. Native plants, cultivated plants and seashells are the subjects the artist has chosen to depict the textures, forms and intricate details seen in nature.
Through her work, Day brings attention to the “ordinary and (the) everyday” and encourages viewers to see familiar items in a new way. She explains:
For to be lost in an image is to be temporarily suspended from the miserable realities of the everyday world. Happiness, to home into to a pertinent contemporary concern, lies not in material wealth but looking beyond the veil that covers the visual world, to a place of imagination and dreams. These images of flowers and shells offer an opportunity to escape and to dream.
Meet Alison Day at the Limelight Gallery’s opening reception on
Sunday, March 4, 2012 (2-4 PM).
Exhibit Hours:
Monday, Tuesday and Thursday (9-8)
Wednesday and Friday (9-6)
Saturday (9-5)
Sunday (1-4)
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