Carolyn Quartermaine
Arcadia is a dream; a longing for a place, like a still from a film where there is an underlying sense of mystery, with narrative and movement. These new works are a blend of classical Palladian landscapes blurred with water, with the English landscape remaining the strongest element... the perfection of Capability Brown and that longing.
There is water, it can be the sea, the lakes, the rain. These poetic fragments come from forty years of long voyages in France and England, where the film has been exposed over and over; they document a journey through the artist’s imaginative landscape. Her choice of material, especially vellum trace, brings the print closer to a painting, while the transparency allows her to collage and layer like early glass plate photography, with its mysterious, dreamlike qualities, intense yet fleeting moments and moods.
