Ingrid Johnstone

Four Seasons

23 Mar - 24 Apr

INGRID JOHNSTONE enjoys the physical act of painting on canvas, she charges her compositions with intuitive, sweeping brushstrokes that harness the expressive potential of pure colour. JOHNSTONE's work speaks of the beauty of textiles as much as of the joy of painting. Her imagery is fired by the Dogon tribes of Africa and the textiles of Peru, just as she has marvelled at the patience of the weavers labouring at the loom in Morocco, the cloth of India, Burma and the Ibans of Sarawak. Tonality and movement imply veils of cloth, and like drapery the surfaces of her paintings both reveal and conceal.