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The Forest Edge, an exhibition of new works by Tadeusz Deręgowski and Jane Rutherford.
New paintings from Latin America and Scotland by Tadeusz Deręgowski and Jane Rutherford
For the last ten years TADEUSZ DERĘGOWSKI has focussed on painting pochades: small plein-air oil paintings of landscapes. In an age of easy photography his paintings tackle the feeling of being in a specific place at a specific time, as opposed to rendering topographical or botanical details. He has travelled extensively to paint in the North Africa, Latin America, and North America. His artworks are a form of witness: he seeks to record the unmediated act of being. Tadeusz grew up in Scotland but has lived in southern Brazil for the last twelve years. He has exhibited both in the UK and in Brazil. In 2006 he won the Dedalo Art Prize, in 2016, he won the Ann Redpath Painting Prize and in 2018 he won the Henderson Art Grant.
JANE RUTHERFORD’S paintings focus on patterns in the landscape, where areas of human intervention such as fields, pathways, gardens and clearings, meet wilder vegetation. She is drawn to the borders between the natural and the cultivated, the inhabited and the uninhabited. Observing marks made in a landscape, Jane draws on memory and by layering paint, fabric and wallpaper, she evokes the connection of a person to a place. Jane has exhibited widely and with a bursary, awarded by the McColl Arts Foundation, she travelled to Brazil to paint on the theme of land development in the Northern Amazon.
While the practice of both artists in the exhibition is rooted in consideration of that elemental landscape, one bares witness to the moment, working out in the open, and the other has a reflective studio-based practice, working from observational sketches and memory.
This exhibition was held at Gallery 5595, an earlier version on No31 Gallery, by the seaside in Portobello, Edinburgh.
