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Paula Mac Arthur
United Kingdom
Artist highlights
- Major permanent collection
- Prizewinner
- Residency Participant
- Works on commission
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Artwork details
- Medium : Oil on Canvas
- Other details : Artwork on supported wooden frame. Ready to hang. Framing on request.
- Dimensions : 29.5x19.7in
About this artwork
'Why should it be true' is a continuation of my Crystal series which have been made since the start of lockdown in March.
Through this time my approach was much more deliberate and particular; a reflection on the current situation which made me hypersensitive to my surroundings. Though initial studies were made before this pandemic, the paintings have begun to echo the shape and form of the virus, apparently emerging from the void.
The initial… concept for these works stemmed from my thoughts on the evident disconnect between man and nature. Increasingly the natural world is viewed as something quite separate from humankind, something to be either controlled or protected but different from us. Like the virus, crystals too are part of the natural world, both alien and strange, and arguably, both are very beautiful, the visual similarity suggesting that everything really is connected. As Carl Sagan so aptly put it "We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.”
Through this time my approach was much more deliberate and particular; a reflection on the current situation which made me hypersensitive to my surroundings. Though initial studies were made before this pandemic, the paintings have begun to echo the shape and form of the virus, apparently emerging from the void.
The initial… concept for these works stemmed from my thoughts on the evident disconnect between man and nature. Increasingly the natural world is viewed as something quite separate from humankind, something to be either controlled or protected but different from us. Like the virus, crystals too are part of the natural world, both alien and strange, and arguably, both are very beautiful, the visual similarity suggesting that everything really is connected. As Carl Sagan so aptly put it "We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.”
Paula Mac Arthur
United Kingdom
Credentials
- Major permanent collection
- Prizewinner
- Residency Participant
- Works on commission
« The difference between making the painting and looking at the painting allows me to access different parts of myself. »
Paula MacArthur is a British painter based in Rye, East Sussex. She trained at the Royal Academy Schools in London, graduating in 1993, where she received the Royal Academy Schools Prize for Painting. Paula's current work focuses on the light and luminous colours of gemstones and minerals; each specimen is captured in the spotlight, inviting the viewer to pause for a moment of quiet reflection.
