8:33am Wednesday 26th August 2009
By Jim Greenhalf
The winner of this year’s Joan Day bursary at Thornton’s South Square Gallery is Lisa V Robinson.
Her work, a blend of figuration and abstraction, has been exhibited at galleries in Nottingham, Leeds and Manchester.
Recently, she has been painting new works in her Wakefield studio which will form her show at South Square Gallery.
Curator David Knowles says: “The series of large canvases explore Robinson’s attraction to the physicality of paint.
“Oil paint is poured and splashed on to the canvas and the resulting surface provides inspiration to place other elements.
“The forms and marks within these paintings are developed from watercolour and gouache studies of shop windows.
“Aside from providing engaging aspects such as reflections and shadows, a shop window could be viewed as a merging of two worlds: the real and the fantasy.”
The annual bursary commemorates the life of Joan Day, a considerable painter and former chairman of Ilkley Art Club who died in 2004.
Joan’s paintings of Yorkshire Abbeys – Bolton, Jervaulx, Fountains, Kirkstall and Rievaulx – are splendid pieces, reminiscent in colour of John Piper.
Lisa V Robinson’s New Paintings exhibition at South Square Gallery is on from September 5 to 27. The Gallery is open Tuesday to Sunday, noon to 3pm.
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