FILM - WATER FALL
FILM - on location in Mexico
NEXT EXHIBITIONS:
23rd, 24th, 25th November 2018 - art 3F Brussels
Brussels Expo, Place de Belgique 1, 1020 Bruxelles
More info at www.art3f.fr/index.php/fr/bruxelles
6th to 9th December 2018- art 3f Luxembourg
Exhibiting with Folly and Muse Gallery:
www.follyandmuse.com/
Luxexpo - Thebox, 10, Circuit de la Foire Internationale
L-1347 Luxembourg-Kirchberg. More info at:
www.art3f.fr/index.php/en/home-luxembourg/
15th to 17th of March 2019 - Brussels Affordable Art Fair
Tour & Taxis, Avenue du Port 86c, B1000 Brussels, Belgium
More info at https://affordableartfair.com/fairs/brussels
Brussels Expo, Place de Belgique 1, 1020 Bruxelles
More info at www.art3f.fr/index.php/fr/bruxelles
6th to 9th December 2018- art 3f Luxembourg
Exhibiting with Folly and Muse Gallery:
www.follyandmuse.com/
Luxexpo - Thebox, 10, Circuit de la Foire Internationale
L-1347 Luxembourg-Kirchberg. More info at:
www.art3f.fr/index.php/en/home-luxembourg/
15th to 17th of March 2019 - Brussels Affordable Art Fair
Tour & Taxis, Avenue du Port 86c, B1000 Brussels, Belgium
More info at https://affordableartfair.com/fairs/brussels
BACKGROUND
These new works by Abigail McDougall are inspired by the artist’s travels to botanical gardens in the U.K. and Morocco and to sinkholes, mangroves in Mexico and waterfalls in Wales. They focus on the reflected patterns of roots and tropical plants on the surfaces of still bodies of water, explored with a harmonious and vivid colour palette. Featured botanical gardens include Lost Gardens of Heligan, Kew Gardens, the Majorelle garden in Marrakech, other locations include the Brecon Beacons, Snowdonia and the Yucatan, Mexico.
Abigail’s lucid depiction of light and shape evoke a feeling of simultaneous movement and serenity. The artist makes pilgrimages to these places of tranquillity, which have particularly interesting shapes and colour palettes. The mangroves and sinkholes in Mexico especially, provide a changeable palette of intense turquoises brought out from the calcium in the water.
The ever- changing imagery reflected on the surface of water has, for millennia, been a powerful allure to contemplation and reflection. Hermann Hesse wrote about this subject in his classic work “Siddhartha”. Water is also a very political subject, globally. The artist calls attention to her belief that the successful future of our species will be intrinsically tied up with how we deal with balancing the quality and distribution of water sources in the coming years.
Abigail began her career in Bristol with a watercolour series entitles "Bristol in a Different Light". This series captured Bristol and the surrounding countryside in vivid and atmospheric colour palettes, especially scenes featuring water, such as the Bristol Harbour, the river Avon and the canal networks. She then went on to paint many more places that were close to her heart, such as London, Italy, Morocco, Brighton, Manchester and Bath. She still produces landscapes and cityscapes to commission.
Abigail also produces high quality limited edition reproductions of selected works and is happy to receive public or private commissions for new originals.
Abigail’s lucid depiction of light and shape evoke a feeling of simultaneous movement and serenity. The artist makes pilgrimages to these places of tranquillity, which have particularly interesting shapes and colour palettes. The mangroves and sinkholes in Mexico especially, provide a changeable palette of intense turquoises brought out from the calcium in the water.
The ever- changing imagery reflected on the surface of water has, for millennia, been a powerful allure to contemplation and reflection. Hermann Hesse wrote about this subject in his classic work “Siddhartha”. Water is also a very political subject, globally. The artist calls attention to her belief that the successful future of our species will be intrinsically tied up with how we deal with balancing the quality and distribution of water sources in the coming years.
Abigail began her career in Bristol with a watercolour series entitles "Bristol in a Different Light". This series captured Bristol and the surrounding countryside in vivid and atmospheric colour palettes, especially scenes featuring water, such as the Bristol Harbour, the river Avon and the canal networks. She then went on to paint many more places that were close to her heart, such as London, Italy, Morocco, Brighton, Manchester and Bath. She still produces landscapes and cityscapes to commission.
Abigail also produces high quality limited edition reproductions of selected works and is happy to receive public or private commissions for new originals.