This month on 'A Geography of Colour' podcast Ruth Philo talked with painter Miranda Boulton about her relationship with colour.
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Miranda is a contemporary British painter who lives and work in Cambridge, UK. She studied Art History at Sheffield Hallam University and at Turps Banana Art School in London.
In 2021 she won the Jacksons Painting Prize. Notable exhibitions include: Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2016 & 2019, Creekside Open 2019, ING Discerning Eye 2021 and the Young Masters Autumn Exhibition 2022. She is represented by the Cynthia Corbett Gallery.
She describes her paintings as Nature Morte of flora. Her work is a response to historical references within this genre. Art historical images are translated through memory into a contemporary pictorial language, linked through expressive colour, gesture and form. Each painting is an ongoing conversation between past and present, an exploration of new forms from old imagery and narratives.
Painting for Miranda is a complex and endlessly fascinating medium. Amy Sillman sums it up here:
‘Making a painting is so hard it makes you crazy. You have to negotiate surface, silhouette, line, space, zone, layer, scale, speed and mass, while interacting with meta-surface meaning text, sign, language, intention, concept and history. You have to simultaneously diagnose the present, predict the future and ignore the past – to both remember and forget. You have to love and hate your objects and subjects, to believe every shred of romantic and passionate mythos about painting and at the same time cast our gimlet eye on it. ‘ www.amysillman.com/wp-content/uplo…602_OnColor.pdf
Links:
Miranda Boulton www.mirandaboulton.co.uk/
A Geography of Colour www.ruthphilo.co.uk/a-geography-of-colour.html
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/
Amy Sillman www.amysillman.com/wp-content/uplo…602_OnColor.pdf
The Cynthia Corbett Gallery www.thecynthiacorbettgallery.com/artists/
