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EYESTORM SHOW: 'Wonderful Winter'

Eyestorm are excited to announce that this years Christmas show will be on at the Eyestorm gallery from 6th - 14th December. Work featured in the aptly titled ‘Wonderful Winter’, represents the artists own personal view on the winter season.


Artists exhibiting in the show will be Minne Fry, Susie Wright, David Jones, Peter Lloyd, Simon Parish, Andy Taylor Smith, Marc Wilson (above image) and many more Eyestorm artists.


The show is only on for a limited time, so come down and see this traditionally festive show before Christmas.

PORTRAITURE: Tom Fecht, Linda Karshan, Paul Raguenes

15- 25 November 2007

Opening times: 10am to 6pm Monday to Friday
Noon to 5pm Saturday and Sunday.

Vanessa Suchar has been invited as guest curator at Eyestorm Gallery space opposite Tate Modern in London. Three artists were chosen to explore PORTRAITURE beyond representation as captured in their recent works in search of the transitory and subconscious elements of identity like aura, psyche and soul. Drawing, painting, sculpture and photography will interact to challenge the visitors’ perception of portrait as artistic genre in multiple ways.

Tom Fecht photographed Linda Karshan at work in her London studio. Intrigued by the performative nature of her practice, and her choreographic language to mark out time in space, Fecht set out to capture the repetitive patterns of this work. Between the first encounters in 2005 and subsequent shootings in 2006, Karshan learned more and more about the subconscious aspects of her long established drawings rituals, which surfaced through photography. Karshan, a trained dancer at the beginning of her career, started intuitively to redesign her way of drawing and opened up her stance to support her hand better while drawing. Thus it was necessary to “begin again”.

Much has been written about Karshan’s practise. Writing about the first appearance of the “Figure” in 1994, she said “for me, the piece is a self portrait”. The same might be said of each subsequent work. In his photos, Fecht shows the artist as she enacts, and marks out, again and again, that “figure assigned to her”. In 2007 finally both artists collaborated on a new portrait series of fine art prints fusing drawing and photography, presented for the first time in this show.

Paul Raguenes’ paintings are saturated of pigments and appear on first glance as pure monochromes before they start to change colours, questioning our perception to make us look closer. The way his work transmits colour fools every perception; his use of pigments recalls the ephemeral quality of an aura, which prefers voluntarily to disappear when curiosity gets close or too close - like his paintings which are literally destroyed once touched. The same can be observed with his unique ‘Monospy’ sculptures. Due to their intriguing reflections they tend to transform immediately into site specific interventions, silent catalysts between the gallery, the viewer and the works shown in the space. Portraiture moves away from representation to learn about the unknown, the alien and other.

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Eyestorm is the leading online retailer of limited edition contemporary art. Founded in 1999, Eyestorm came under new management in 2006 and has refined its operations to make buying the finest contemporary art easier and more enjoyable than ever before.