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Exhibition by Penny Elder
About the Artist
Penny Elder writes: I live in North London where I have worked as a psychotherapist for many years. Perhaps because of this my painting and screen-printing reflects my interest in the relationship between internal and external worlds. Many of my oil paintings express the sensation of wild open places in my mind, such as remote Scottish landscapes where we often escape to, and the resonance of these experiences, through building up layers of colour, form a narrative of past into present. I respond to the images I project onto the canvas through the process of an internal dialogue and never know what will emerge.
My screenprints and monoprints explore interior worlds and the structure of the mind, connections and links. The series on Doorways and a new project on Windows are both concerned with an exploration of the unknown - of standing at the threshold - and the juxtaposition of interior and exterior. The combination of painting in oils and mono screen-printing, working through a screen, gives different expressions to personal emotional experiences conveyed through semi-abstract forms.
I have just had an exhibition at the Tavistock Centre, NW3, and have another at the Westminster Pastoral Foundation, SE1, from January to April 2010. During the past few years I have shown work at The London Print Studio Summer Exhibition, The London Centre for Psychotherapy Summer Exhibition, North London Hospice Art Exhibition, Hampstead Artists' Council Exhibition at Burgh House, NW3, as well as work at The Royal Free Hospital with HAC, and for the last four years have had an Open Studio weekend annually at The Chocolate Factory, Wood Green, N22 where I have my studio (Studio 7, Unit C307).
I can be contacted by email: pennyelder@blueyonder.co.uk and details of my work can be seen on my website: www.pennyelder.co.uk
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