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In every sense, literal and metaphorical, Claydens work is many layered. Its impact on the emotions and the instincts is powerfully immediate, but one can come back to it again and again, and see new subtleties without losing at all the first amazing impact, the sense of the simplicity behind the subtlety behind the simplicity John Russell-Taylor
Claydens paintings are noted for their unusual and breathtaking imagery but the most remarkable aspect of her work remains her excellence in any medium she chooses to work in and a total commitment to her own truth.
Imagery; Paintings that create an atmosphere of stillness, quiet, solitude and contemplation. Enigmas that evolve through the amalgamation of Cornwall, tables, and the human psyche. Idiosyncratic figures whose motionless gestures betray an internal activity. Ambiguous domestic sagas that tell a greater universal story.
Colour; Subtle low key colouring. The stillness and quiet of neutrals combine with the warmth of pinks and oranges.
Surface; Surfaces sway from the coarser extremes of cloth: hessian, canvas, muslin, string and rope to the gentler flatter ground of paper: old diaries, medical notes and account books. From these tactile and inspirational beginnings the images are literally drawn.
Likened to; Blakes poetry, Cocteaus Orphee, Samuel Palmer, Kieth Vaughan, Robert Colquhoun, Robert MacBryde, British painters from the 1930s.
Her process of finding images in her materials has been paralleled to the Surrealist preoccupation with automatic writing. Influenced by;
Early Surrealist cinema, George Stubbs, Giotto, Art Brut, Rembrandt, Cecil Collins.
Exhibition Dates: QUAD : 23rd - 28th June 2008
