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Bernard J Charnley

Coventry
Bernard Charnley works primarily in paint with an emphasis on colour and materiality. The imagery engages with ideas of impermanence and change as a metaphoric space.

There is a strange and damaged hinterland of nature awakened in these displayed images. Yet their fateful appearance is illuminated by the imaginary of paint. It is a search for an undefined enchantment of shape, light, colour and metaphor, emerging out of alienated  terrains.

It is this mystery of a damaged actual and its recuperated spirit that I find compelling, especially as it translates into changing forms and mediations across the paintings. It has a sense of a a journey or odyssey. One where the human, inscribed as a sign of making and abandonment, is then drawn into the spell of transfigured spaces.

 

Border Notes And Adorno’s Dream

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Poetry Notes

Energy Line Disturbs Water Spirits

Where Poetry Lives

Study

Fire On The Hill

Intermezzo

When The Stars Threw Down Their Spears

Not A Washing Line

Division 17

Reflection On A Clear Blue Day

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