Clare Woods 'The Unquiet Head' - Hepworth Wakefield
Visited: 15/01/2012
The visiting artist at 'Hepworth' was Clare Woods, and her collection of beautiful paintings in oil on aluminium. They depict supernatural elements of landscapes, rock formations, natural pools and twisted vegetation.
The entrance room boasts these two huge expanses of paintings adjacent to each other, as if in conversation or conflict with each other. Due to the reflective surface of the paint when facing to look at one you can see the other in its reflection, inevitably a conscious decision made by the curator.
Not all her work was so large, some smaller pieces were packed with as much detail, captured in the brush work and the colours chosen. The abstract nature of them allowed children and adults alike to imagine what they wanted to see in each part of the painting and created a family fun atmosphere.
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