KVT – Silken Seduction
Grot and all it’s a stunner of an exhibition that will win a lot of hearts. Just keep your eyes above floor level and if the place is in darkness ask the people in the adjoining coffee shop to turn the lights on for you. They’ll happily oblige.
Highly recommended and closes on the 12th and the artist provides details should you wish to contact or visit his studio at a later date.
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Though the paintings are tastefully arranged, they are oddly numbered and one has to run constantly to the equally tastefully mounted and hang, as if a work of art in itself (?) list of works, to check the corresponding names.
That was a major put off for me.
The works themselves deserve a careful viewing, bearing in mind the technical difficulties of the media: the capriciousness of the silk and no less demanding handling of watercolor.
The paintings stop short of crossing the border into the graphic arts/design territory simply because of the chosen media, but this trend is popular with the very young generation of artist and audience world wide…so… why not…