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'Delaney is one of
that seasoned group of British painters who continue to make art that
'There is no sense
of stasis here...These paintings glow and pulse with life.' (Andrew
'These are lyrical,
subtle paintings, great discs of amber and blue...They sing to each
'An abstract
painter of considerable inventiveness.' (Andrew Lambirth, 'The Week') Since 1975 she has been exhibiting regularly, including shows at the Kansas City Art Institute, USA; Irena Hochman, New York; Royal College of Art; Redfern Gallery, London; Anne Berthoud, London; Contemporary Art Society; Eagle Gallery, London; 'The Discerning Eye', Mall Galleries; Belgrave Gallery, London; the Contemporary Art Fairs at New York, Hong Kong and Edinburgh; the London Art Fair; Wakayama Art Centre, Osaka, Japan; Maru Gallery, Pusan, Korea; The Drawing Gallery, London; Flowers Central, London; Alexia Goethe Gallery, London. In recent years her works have been included in major national exhibitions at Birmingham Museum’s Waterhall Gallery of Modern Art (2001-02 and 2002-03); Wolverhampton Art Gallery (2002); the Contemporary Art Space, Osaka, Japan (2004); and again at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (2007). To date she has held 29 solo exhibitions, more recently at the Victoria & Albert useum; (Friends Room), 2002; Derby Museum & Art Gallery (2003); Ashbourne Art Gallery (2004); Southampton City Art Gallery (2005); Atrium Gallery, Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, (2006) Public collections: British Museum; Victoria & Albert Museum Contemporary Art Society; Government Art Collection; Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery; Southapmton City Art Gallery; Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; ING Bank; Goldman Sachs: Linden Museum, Stuttgart, Germany; Leicester Museum & Art Gallery; Brighton Museum & Art Gailery; Kansas City Art Institute, USA; Wakayama Art Centre, Osaka, Japan; Pembroke College, Oxford; Nancy Balfour Collection; Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford; Queen Mary & Westfield College, London University; Inner London Education Authority; Department of the Environment; Chelsea & Westminster Hospital; Hertfordshire County Art Collection; Lincolnshire & Humberside Arts; Southampton University; London Borough of Camden; Bassetlaw Museum; Astley Cheetham Art Gallery; Brunei University; Surrey University; Nuffield Foundation; Paintings in Hospitals; Open University. Her solo exhibition at Southampton City Art Gallery was televised by BBC South. Painting, to me, means life and communication. In abstraction, I try to reach the essence of a sensation - be it the joy of dynamic colour/movement, or calm spiritual contemplation.
Influences on my work are
endless: sunlight on water, on buildings, flashing off puddles after rain;
walking in open spaces, the changing light of sea and sky; music: Eric Satie,
Debussy, Bach at his most soaringly joyful, certain kinds of jazz, some tribal
music; watching a flock of birds flying over the calm surface of a pond,
reflected in the water; the
For many years I've been deeply interested in the
traditional arts of other cultures - Indian Ragamala painting, traditional
African sculpture and Amazonian featherworks in particular. The circular motifs
in my large paintings evolved out of the structure of Amazonian feather
headdresses (some in my own collection), as did the 3-D works on paper. A
further Since early childhood I've loved the colourful and formal art of the Middle Ages; later this developed into a love of Indian Ragamala painting: the ongoing Bundi/Asavari series started in 2000, and I keep developing it with great joy!
Finally: there is a strong
sense of light in my painting. Although stimulated by light in nature, I do not
try to reproduce atmospheric light in my work. Over the years a number of people
have remarked that my paintings did not merely reflect light, but that they
appeared to emit a luminosity of their own. Occasionally one comes across people
who have an inner |