Niamh NicGhabhann Coleman explores the paintings of Swedish-born artist Cecilia Danell and her playful use of colour and line
Cecilia Danell’s landscape paintings present us with at-first-familiar scenes – tangled branches, ferns and grasses on the forest floor, the textures of bark. The longer we look, however, the stranger they become. Flashes of neon pink appear in the undergrowth; drips of lilac, purple and orange appear in the middle distance. The realism of the paintings is interwoven with an abstract, painterly layer that permeates and punctures the scene, stopping and surprising us as we visually make our way through these large canvases.
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