Ange Mullen-Bryan
Paintings

Opens Tuesday 23 October
Malthouse Bar & Kitchen, Salmon Springs Stroud GL6 6NU

‘’My paintings take their inspiration from the lakes, forests and skies of a vast Swedish landscape and a very particular Nordic light. This is where they begin like snapshots from a road trip or plotted points on a map. 

A solitary hunting Hide beside a forest road, thistly with dry branches, its spikes like a feathered nest. Solemn snowscapes have long shadows and fierce pink skies. Hot lupins, dark pines, dripping lakes and quiet fires. The distant echoes of the groaning, warping and thumping of a lake trapped under ice.

This is a land where the imagination runs away and the uncanny resides, where the real and imagined co-exist.

I weave threads of paint onto coloured linens and canvases and make exaggerated, luminous, livid landscapes. I invite an escape into a kind of utopia, where you can smell freedom and pine in the air, a place I think I know. Yet these paintings tell darker tales of tension, foreboding and longing, I dress them up in the fabric and costume of colour and light.’’

In 2008 Ange was shortlisted for the prestigious Liverpool John Moore’s painting prize and in 2015 shortlisted in the National Open Art Prize where she took part in the finalist’s exhibition at the Royal College of Art, London. In 2011
2015 selected to hang in the RWA Autumn Open competitions in Bristol.
 
Ange has a studio in Painswick, Gloucestershire.
Her Studio will be open in the Select Winter Trail 24 and 25 November
Ange is also exhibiting in Malthouse Collective next door 6 – 25 November

www.angemullenbryan.com

All work is for sale. Please contact SIT select on info@sitselect.org for details

Malthouse Bar & Kitchen Salmon Springs Stroud GL6 6NU