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Forgotten Dream, 2021, Oil on linen, 30 x 30 cm -
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Gill Button is not interested in portraying a likeness or façade; but in discovering and feeling something more enigmatic. The series of faces in this new body of work appear a little out of our reach; glazed over, or looking past us. They are melancholic, deep in their own thoughts... maybe burdened or weary; we are unable to interact with them. Even the woman in ‘Distance’, who is seemingly looking at us, is actually looking through us, oblivious or nonchalant. They are all a little lost in time.
Button’s large scale works often portray figures within wider landscapes, but the two large canvases in The Edge of Time depict contained, solitary figures. They are not relaxing in the delights of a warm bubble bath, but trapped within its rigid confines; it is their chrysalis while they wait in hope that the next chapter of their lives will begin. The archway symbolism further emphasises a stage of transition, of renewal; an archway they are unable to pass through. An echo perhaps of the recent universal state of being.
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Gill Button in her studio 2021
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