TANERA BRYDEN & BEN DEAKIN

DATES: 13 October - 11 November 2004
OPENING TIMES:
TUESDAY - SATURDAY / 11AM - 6PM
ADMISSION: FREE

Private View: 12 October 2004, 6:30 – 9pm
1st Floor, 12 All Saints Rd, London W11 1HH
Nearest Tube: Ladbroke Grove, Notting Hill, and Westbourne Park

From 13 October 2004 Artist Eye Space, Portobello’s newest gallery, will be showing new work by two London –based artists, Tanera Bryden and Ben Deakin

TANERA BRYDEN’S PAINTINGS aim to create a visual language for the tapestry of sound that envelops our everyday existence. She has made recordings in various areas of London, where she has lived for eight years, to use as sources for her work.
She states that: “The influence of sound on our lives is untold and frequently ignored; at any volume, it can be healing, harmful, comforting, or intolerable. My paintings are visualisations of the invisible clamour of London.”
Works on display are executed in acrylic on canvas and acrylic, pencil and ink on paper. It varies hugely in scale.

BEN DEAKEN uses a loose painting and drawing style as a catalyst for making his imaginary landscapes. They start without a fixed preconceived idea, allowing the material to suggest the image in random marks. The mountainous landscapes, seen from an aerial perspective without a horizon or any discernable sense of scale, allow the paintings to remain fluid. Choices of composition and colour are made in terms of what works within the picture plane rather than what would be “realistic”
He states that: “This approach allows me to explore the evocative potential of paint and of painting as an illusionary space. The paintings depict an interior world, which embodies the human desire to perceive order and form in the random and abstract. “
Works on display are executed in oil on canvas and graphite on paper. It varies hugely in scale. Winner of British Airways Painting Prize award, 1997.