Ena Swansea
Shadow and Reflection
2005
2005, Oil and graphite on canvas
279 x 203cm |
Ena Swansea’s Shadow and Reflection contains a duplicitous, otherworldly quality. Swansea captures the nuance of dreamy environment with impressionistic fervour: the watery ground churns with underlying graphite texture, descending into a scratchy ambiguous mist. An oil-spill glare of coloured light becomes a consuming fixation. Spellbound, it holds her figure in mystical sway: impossibly showing presence, reflection, and ominous shadow as fractured sense of self; a sublime landscape of inner contemplation. |