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Tessa MacGregor

Tessa MacGregor's colourful, sumptuous paintings take inspiration from the idea of a perpetual twilight, an eerie landscape captured in the transition from soft to hard light. They are decorative, brave experiments with colour and juxtaposed elements. Referencing the Quay brothers film 'The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes', virtual reality and nineteenth century American Romantic painter, Martin Johnson Heade, the result of these diverse preoccupations has been described as 'cosmological chaos'. In these paintings the natural takes on the appearance of the synthetic, as if almost too bright and lush to be true. As the artist says of the layered compositions of butterflies, flowers and birds - <I try to blur the line between the natural and the visionary. I merge artifice and glamour with an awe for nature, always searching for the mystical, the magical and the dreamlike.>

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