60 Degrees North: the immersive world of JANETTE KERR

60 Degrees North: the immersive world of JANETTE KERR

Showing at Kilmorack Gallery from the 20th June until 2nd August 2015.

Rain and Sea Fog over Silwick Stacks
oil on board, 33.5cm x 32.5cm

Sea Fog and Flying Debris over Silwick Stacks
oil and flying debris on board, 23cm x 33cm

JANETTE KERR’s paintings are northern. There is nothing polite about them. They are about an immersive elemental power that is too easily forgotten or has possibly never been seen in the south. 

Think of an impressionist painting: warm beaches, warm afternoons, parasols, beautiful people and very slight inclines, and throw this away. Here we have nature at its most powerful: towering waves, foam and vortexes of paint reaching everywhere. There are dark blues and blacks with bits of pink and green amide swirls of action. Put away the parasol and put on a survival suit, we’re in Shetland; alive in the north not melting in the south.

Painting was never meant to be polite and these works certainly aren't. 

Faskin An Glansin - Silwick
oil on fabriano paper, 93cm x 100cm

Tony
www.kilmorackgallery.co.uk
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