包媛茵 『梦幻风景』版画及绘画展览 Faye Bradley’s Dream Landscapes 罗卓睿画廊 将于 9 月 11 日 下午 6 时至 8 时 香港岛炮台山道32号 富嘉阁 3楼D室 罗卓睿画廊 举行开幕。 罗卓睿画廊呈献英国艺术家包媛茵 Faye Bradley 全新版画及绘画展览 。 艺术家包媛茵在香港出生和长大，随后前往英国利兹大学攻读艺术与设计学士（荣誉）学位。她一直对视觉艺术充满热情，并在绘画和绘画生活场景中为自己找到了舒适感。在利兹大学学习期间，她开始使用油画来製作中大型艺术作品，并创作了一系列名为 『梦幻风景』 的画作。 『梦幻风景』旨在创造一种人无法获得的对无形梦想世界的感觉。凭藉对梦想和梦想的浓厚兴趣，包媛茵通过她对人类行为的独立论文研究，研究侧重于梦想的过程以及艺术家如何在作品中受到啟发和使用。她的画作以一种明亮，超脱现实的氛围将观众描绘成一种怀旧和梦想的回忆。能够通过多种大型（和较小的速写）绘画来展示这一点，使观众的视线能够在每种构图的颜色和形状上徘徊，并感受到她希望唤起的感觉。 目前，包媛茵居住在香港，将于10月中旬搬到伦敦，继续从事视觉艺术事业。 Faye Bradley was born and raised in Hong Kong before moving to the U.K. to study Art and Design BA (Hons) at the University of Leeds. She has always had a passion for the visual arts, and found comfort in drawing and painting scenes of her life. During her study at Leeds university, she began to use oil paint to produce large scale art pieces and composed a series of paintings, entitled “Dream Landscapes”. Dream Landscapes aims to create a sense of the intangible dream world which humans cannot acquire physically. With a deep interest in dreams and dreaming, Faye has studied the human behaviour through her Independent Study: Dissertation, which focused on the processes of dreaming and how artists are inspired and use this in their work. Her paintings transcend a luminous, surreal atmosphere, and aspire to portray the audience into a nostalgia and remembrance of a dream. Being able to showcase this through multiple large-scale (and smaller studies) paintings, allows the viewer to wander across the colours and shapes of each composition and get a sense of the feeling she wishes to evoke. The processes used behind Faye’s paintings in Dream Landscapes, were inspired by the memories of her previous holidays and moments of happiness- found through photographs. She used these photographs as memoirs and found nostalgia and comfort, when looking at these. Using a selection of her best photography, she found sections of this to concentrate her paintings on. To find the landscape composition, she chooses the most critical points of interest on each painting, particularly focusing on the curvature of the mountains and roads to create an “unreal” landscape. She derives much of inspiration from reknowned artists, David Hockney and Milton Avery. Both these artists display an exquisite way of working, using colour to express a vivid scene. Faye expresses her notion of dreaming through colour as well, using luminous, light washes of oil paint to embody a sense of faded memory- much like being in a dream. The artist’s fascination in dreams was founded from her own experience in dreaming and how each one differs nightly- sometimes retraced but slightly different each time. She aims to recreate this through her work and translate the idea of dream imagery in painting Dream Landscapes series comprise of oil painting. This was a new technique for the artist, after using it only from three years ago. The fluidity and ability to create transparency through oil paints was a huge factor in determining her choice of using this medium. The importance of transparency was to focus on the dreamy atmosphere and help to enhance the dream experience for viewers. Faye enjoys painting on large canvases because she feels this really helps to translate a message and allow her to freely paint across the page, without restrictions. She made her own frames for her canvases as well as some ready-made ones for the larger paintings. Compositions were tested through smaller-scale studies, before being painted on the larger canvases. She also created prints of the paintings in the Dream Landscape collection, in order to allow viewers to see the paintings from a different angle and size, which completely changes the tone of the image. Faye found that this brought out a new, exciting challenge to her work. Currently, Faye is living in Hong Kong and will be moving to London in mid-October to further pursue her career in the visual arts. Opening Reception: 11,12 September ,2018 6-8pm Gallery Michael Andrew Law 3D Fu Kar Court, 32 Fortress Hill Road, Hong Kong