Venue 41 at Edinburgh Art Festival
17th-28th August
Tuesday–Saturday
11.30am – 4pm (or by appointment until 4th September)
This exhibition of new paintings in acrylic and aquacryl on canvas sees Edwards celebrating a return to her working practice of the 1980s. The visual stimulus for the work is derived from being outside and observing, for example, a fence, the wooden structure at the end of a sea wall or the angles of canes in an allotment garden. Her observations are translated into colour, mark, line and edge in paint on stretched canvas or on a loose piece of canvas as if painting on paper.
She often describes the way she paints as ‘interfering with the image’. Edwards builds up the surface with thin layers of paint which are both translucent and at times opaque. In June this year she was given a place at North Lands Creative Glass in Lybster, on the Master Class with Catharine Newell, ‘A Particulate Language,’ where she was able to further explore mark-making in a different medium.
Part of the 2010 Edinburgh Art Festival.