Abi Kremer

 

'Colour Visions'

  1)   Garden 1                  Oil on canvas                  152 x 107cm   

  2)   Garden 2                  Oil on canvas                  152 x 107cm    

  3)   Garden 3                  Oil on canvas                  152 x 107cm    

  4)   Blue Wing 1              Oil on canvas                  64 x   94cm        

  5)   Blue Wing 2              Oil on canvas                  64 x   94cm        

  6)   Organic Fantasy        Oil on canvas                  60 x   60cm        

  7)   Plant Sketch 1          Graphite on paper           40 x   40cm        

  8)   Little Mead Study      Mixed media on paper     60 x 72cm          

  9)   Spirit Sketch             Mixed media on paper     56 x 62cm           

10)   Woodland Sketch 1    Graphite on paper           56 x 74cm          

11)   Holton Lee Study 1    Indian ink on paper         56 x 42cm           

12)   Holton Lee Study 2    Indian ink on paper         42 x 56cm           

13)   Warleigh Wood 1       Watercolour                    43 x 50cm        

14)   Warleigh Wood 2       Watercolour                    50 x 43cm          

15)   Warleigh Wood 3       Watercolour                    50 x 43cm          

16)   Warleigh Wood 4       Watercolour                    50 x 43cm           

17)   Jug’s Grave               Watercolour                    43 x 50cm          

18)   Treescape 8              Watercolour                    45 x 51cm          

19)   Woodland Fantasy 1  Monoprint                       39 x 39cm          

20)   Woodland Fantasy 2  Monoprint                       39 x 39cm          

21)   Bud 1                       Monoprint                       56 x 43cm           

22)   Bud 2                       Monoprint                       56 x 43cm           

23)   Untitled 4                 Oil on canvas                   70 x 50cm          

24)   Study for Garden 3    Mixed media on paper      50 x 40cm         

   

                            

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Abi Kremer  - Colour Visions -  Artist Statement 

 

Garden 1, 2 and 3 are important works for the artist – inspired by the colour, shape and mood of landscape immediately surrounding her garden studio.  Influences of Abstract Expressionism and Japanese art of the 19th Century are apparent.  Dilute washes of oil paint are overlaid with bold gestural marks.

 

Blue Wing 1 and 2 are inspired by music.  The artist has worked with musician friends, making sketches during a live performance.  These have informed the works, titled Blue Wing for the way the pieces ‘take off’ like a bird in flight.

 

Abi has also been fortunate to work in a studio at Holton Lee – a site of special scientific interest overlooking Lytchett Bay, and several works in the show reflect the magical landscape there.  Indian ink sketches show the dynamic tensions in the landscape – intense energy and peacefulness co-existing. 

 

Bud 1 and 2 show the quality of light and dynamic forms generated by spring woodland landscape.

 

Untitled 4 shows a vibrant abstract form, inspired by trees, set in a prismatic landscape of colour.

 

Woodland Fantasy and Bud monoprints are all made with a unique process.  The first stage is a handmade screen print which develops as the series progresses.  Each print is over painted with images suggested by the patterns of the underlying screen print.  In Woodland Fantasy creatures appeared from the abstract sketches of tree branches. 

 

The watercolours were inspired by visits to Bath woodland and have developed Surrealist imagery suggested by the landscape, including tree stumps and fallen logs.  Intense colour creates a dreamlike quality.

 

Organic Fantasy was inspired by Plant Sketch 1. Spring buds of unfurling leaves have suggested a fantastic world of imaginary shapes and creatures.