The very latest body of work. Prices are not yet finalised. Call +44 (0) 1305 871175 |
Marie's most recent work, which will soon be categorised into other galleries.
The objective of the studio is to explore the space where life and the dream meet. This series of 30 paintings looks at memories as a form of images held in the time frame called the past.
It involved tripping down memory’s lane and exploring the attachment held to moments lived, ideas shared in friendship and worlds discovered through discussions that became significant events to shape thoughts, ideas etc. in the present.
This series represents a bridge from one space to the other. The body of work started in 2007 and was completed in 2009. |
The ‘Angel’ paintings are all about my imagination playing with the landscape under certain conditions.
Henry, my golden cocker spaniel, and I acquired the habit of early morning walks on the beach just as the sun was rising and intermingling with the rolling mist off the sea as the accompanying winds moved it towards the land. The silence was absolute, beautiful and awesome.
In this silence, the wind moving the mist and the gold of the sun outlining shifting and changing shapes, it was easy to imagine this movement along the horizon as angels.
I was completely caught up with the imaginative activities in this landscape.
The combination of these elements in the landscape was more pronounced in late autumn and only under certain conditions, hence the reason why there are so few of them. |
ABOUT THE CHILDHOOD STUDY SERIES
THE CHILDHOOD STUDY SERIES is a body of work developed during my year’s residency in the Himalayas.
The following questions formed the basis of my exploration of how to apply a psychological landscape to life on this mountain:
- How does an individual fit into the dictates of a community living on the edge of survival?
- What happens to a person’s dream in this environment?
- What happens to a child’s dreams in this environment, when contribution to the community in the form of work takes priority? |
These are part of a series of small images measuring 15cms(H) x14cms(W) , almost square but not quite on prepared board.
These are small gem-like paintings: a study in colours using the brilliancy of transparent acrylic glazes and combining them with the solidity of gold leaf.
This particular combination creates an interesting juxtaposition between the quality of the transparent medium and the opaque-ness of gold leaf. The result is a conflict created by the unique quality of both media placed in a small image which is almost a square but not quite - hence the title.
1, 2, 3, and 8 are SOLD |
NOT FOR THE FAINT HEARTED!
These paintings come from a place where everything I’ve ever known and could rely on simply does not exist.
It is a dark place where absolute trust in who I am and what I’m capable of will see me through to the end of what this journey signifies in my process.
It is hard, it is dark, it is painful.
It is a place where only absolute trust is the pre-requisite for the passage. |
The source for each painting is to be found in the dream space.
Over the years I’ve developed a technique that enables me to take the dream apart and to extract information from it.
In the large abstracts, several months of working with the contents of the dream space resulted in a pattern emerging. The pattern eventually evolved into a concept.
The next stage was to develop/construct an image to communicate the concept in visual terms.
The medium is acrylic paint on paper, using a palette knife.
When the painting is finished, I bring what is unconscious to the conscious level, and call this psychological landscaping.
Influences:
- The landscape I live in
- Myths
- Legends
- Symbols
- Dreams
- My personal analysis
- My experience with all of the above. |
The Indigo Series comes from an exploration of a particular time of day called ‘twilight’. According to the dictionary, "twilight" as the faint light after sunset or before sunrise. It is characterised by a most spectacular blue just before it moves into the darkness.
I see it as the space between lightness and darkness or as an unseen space between two other spaces, in this case, lightness and darkness. We know what happens in the lightness and the darkness but we don’t know what happens in the space between.
It is in the in-between spaces that magic can happen. |
Review by: Jem Main, Director of The Study Gallery of Modern Art, Poole
Marie Laywine's paintings evolve over a substantial periods of time - time spent capturing and reflecting on dreams - for years in some instances.
Red predominates, in alchemy, an expression of the feminine. The results are both extrordinary and enigmatic. References or clues to the subjects and the environments in which they exist are inter-woven. Sophisticated knowledge of form and colour theories underpins their execution. Each completed composition is simultaneously as tangible as it is intangible - a dream-like state. These enigmas are purposely designed to encourage the viewer to construct their own narrative from the coded information the artist provides. |
 THE PRELUDES is a series of 105 images using pastels and graphite on 100% cotton paper.
The series was done over a period of three years starting in 1996 and finishing in 1999.
These are small images because the dream image is small and are truly the ‘prelude’ to the larger paintings. As an example, Prelude No. 72 becomes FALLING MAN (Angel Gallery).
The dream speaks to me through the feelings evoked by the objects in the dream landscape. To understand what is being said, I begin the exploration by taking the dream apart.
This is done using a three-phase process:
1. identifying the objects in the dream landscape (these objects are created by my life’s experiences, are familiar, and I know well because at one time evoked a strong reaction).
2. exploring the feelings evoked by these objects
3. bringing the objects and feeling evoked together.
This process helps me to 'locate' a 'landscape' where the possibility for understanding exists.
Each Prelude is priced at £275.00 and can be ‘mixed and matched’ to help you begin your own dialogue with THE PRELUDES.
MEDIUM: pastels and graphite on 100% cotton paper
DIMENSIONS:31.5cms(h) x 29.5cms(w) framed
PRICE: £275.00 each. |
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