Freya Purdue

She says:

 

"Returning to painting after several years away has been both a joy and a challenge. It is wonderful to experience the pleasure of directing all my energy towards painting again. For me the magic of painting comes from both the tactility of the process and absorption in expansive ideas that underpin existence - being human in a vast, contradictory and glorious universe.

 

"Painting is a wonderful kind of alchemical process in which the adventure of materializing and unfolding the energy of ideas is both an uplifting and revealing process. When I am painting I am looking for a sense of connectedness and consciousness between things, between myself and other things, times, artists, practices and histories. My work draws on many sources from the most obvious classical themes in painting to the subtlety of mystical thought. I try to touch the energetic life that inheres in living things and to find a way to express it through painting.

 

"The work in this exhibition is all new, completed in the last year and is exploratory. This year I have been making work in an unreserved way, feeling my way forward – letting go of some of my past approaches and in some sense reconnecting with what is important and essential to me. It has been a great opportunity to rethink and re-evaluate my own visual language and direction and to open a door to new work. "