Heather Eastes / Silver Fields

Heather Eastes / Silver Fields(Na stříbře)
Paintings on paper
25.10.2017 - 25.01.2018
Opening: 25.10.2017

Heather Eastes deploys simple materials sparingly; paper, graphite, white acrylic paint and, occasionally, fleeting tones of blue, red and brown convene into subtle and delicate works, of painterly vein – a pictorial cosmos that is wholly independent. It is the plane where the artist engages intensely with marks, stains and traces of colour and where, for her, they ignite association and memory; and, in turn, through the working process, these emerge embodied, the protagonists of the scene. Heather Eastes’ pictorial world is populated by faces, heads, bodies, obsessive visual recollections of early relationships and longings, mostly of childhood – with the fragile need of community and identity. An invocation of mythological archetypes, spirituality and religion, humans, beasts and God wander through her universe. Metaphors, symbols for early, primal relationships and states, by the same token they reference the present world. Mother (as a goddess, or a distant bird), father (as a god, a devil, a dog), child, brother, sister, the male, the female, heaven and earth seek one another, destined to remain apart.
Stephen Reader, Udo Bugdahn 2012

"This selection of drawings for Vyklady, made on ‘silver fields’ of white acrylic and influenced by the moonlit land and rains and mist outside in West Wales recalls my mother in her own real time, before my time, early family relationships, and a wider association with the mother as an influence in nature, her symbolism in moons and nature myth and the continuation of time through the seasons. The misty space contains no naturalistic perspective. It is a "Floating World" – a Dreamtime containing disparate episodes of different scale, which relate only as fragments scattered on a common picture surface.

Heather Eastes born in Portsmouth, UK, grew up in Portsmouth and Brighton and Hove, lives in Goginan, West Wales and Düsseldorf.
BA (Hons) History and Visual Art University of Wales, Aberystwyth
Meisterschuler (MFA) , Düsseldorf Academy of Fine Art, 1979