Charlotte Verity

23 Nov-22 Dec 2016

Overview

Purdy Hicks is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Charlotte Verity: the first exhibition of her paintings in London since her show at The Garden Museum in 2011. Charlotte Verity's paintings come about slowly during many hours of intense looking and close observation. She is preoccupied by the changing nature of the visual world, natural light and the passing seasons. ‘In these paintings’, Edmund de Waal writes, ‘the seasons ebb is marked. They are a calendar, a series of poems tracing one full moment and then another.’ Her subjects, taken mainly from the natural world, are painted with a certain exactitude but her choice of imagery and handling of pictorial space together with her sense of colour give the finished paintings a resonance well beyond the things they depict. ‘Flowers for Charlotte Verity are what jugs and bottles are for Giorgio Morandi – vessels of light, markers of feeling’, the art historian Paul HiIls observes in his essay on this work.