Private View: Recent Paintings by Helen Douglas-Cooper & Elizabeth Meadows

A show of non-figurative paintings by two artists who explore the possibilities of pictorial space, colour and mark-making.

Helen Douglas-Cooper's paintings are explorations of the language of space-making. They are inspired by light and colour, memories, places, and by the qualities of paint itself. An underlying geometry, experimentation with process, and the materiality of the paint surface are recurring themes; colour is an animating force.

Elizabeth Meadows' work focuses on the relationship between one space and the next. Each painting may resonate a particular sound, with the depth and luminosity of colour dictating its sharp or muffled tone. "At a certain stage the mark, the line, the bar takes on an identity of its own. It may be simply that it feels right."