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17 June - 29 July BRITA GRANSTRÖM : Life in Landscape. Lapland, Sweden and Northumberland
If there were an Alternative Turner Prize, devoted this time to what Turner actually did, which was to work outdoors in all weathers (on one occasion being strapped to the mast of a ship during a storm), Brita Granström would have to be a serious contender for it. Photographs of her caught in the act of painting show her totally concentrated and oblivious to anything else around her including the cold.
As to how she paints and what she paints, they are, of course, symbiotic. Not by nature given to manifesto pronouncements she would settle, I suspect, for the old "News of the World" slogan, "All human life is there", to describe her subject-matter. Of Berwick, where she lives, she says, "I love the hustle and bustle of people getting on with their lives in a timeless seaside town – where it always seems to be windy."
The clearest evidence of her sustaining philosophy, however, lies in the way in which she handles paint. In its directness it is reminiscent of the late Winifred Nicholson: a wash is applied here, a patch of sky is laid in there, while percussive marks establish light, fronds of leaves or a ploughed field. (You can almost work out which brushes she has used by the vigour of the marks she makes). Whether her subject is of people, landscape, or a bowl of flowers in front of a window, the underlying purpose is always the same: the energy of nature finds its equivalence in sweeps and scribbles of paint, shapes and colours which together encompass a myriad of feelings. In this language beyond words one senses nature burgeoning, decaying and indefatigably renewing itself.
Brita Granström divides her time between Sweden and Britain and her career between painting and as a children's book illustrator. (www.mickandbrita.com)
An illustrated price list is available for download here.
To see Brita Granström's works, please go to King's Place Gallery Stock.
Brita Granström's biography is available here.
Image: Low Tide, © Brita Granström
Opening Times:
Kings Place Gallery / Bookshop / Balcony North Gallery:
Monday - Friday 10 am - 6 pm
Saturday - Sunday 12 am - 6 pm
Admission free
Telephone: 020 7520 1485
Fax: 020 7520 1487
Email: kpg@kingsplace.co.uk
