ART n ab ART - 8 x 8 Exhibition

The second exhibition of The Salthouse summer season, is work by a handful of professional artists. The styles of art work on show is very broad, from cleanly formed still life's, to horse paintings, to richly textural abstracted landscape painting, to paintings of striped mugs in various stacked formations.

It was not an aesthetic triumph on the whole. Collectively it feels just a very odd mix of not very complementary styles of painting. Little noticeable dialogue going on between the disparate range of pieces on show. The artist whose work I most appreciated was Rachel Thomas, whose loose and expressive use of colour, playing with the form of the landscapes she paints, I've appreciated previously. It's exciting to look at someone fully in charge of her style, but constantly pushing at its boundaries. The other artists, frankly, I could take of leave. Skilled painters, but with not a lot to say, at least to me.

CARROT REVIEW - 3/8