Artist's Statement
A figurative painter working in oil and mixed media Catriona Millar's works have an immediate impact but they are sustained by a deeper, compelling resonance that draws the viewer back time and again into their centre of gravity.
It has already been said by one critic that Catriona Millar's work ‘possesses an alchemical narrative' and just a few moments in the company of the high-energy figures she creates and you can sense the magic, the boldness and the truthfulness behind them. Their stories are indeed a sort of fluid magic.
Each character is alive with sharp draughtsmanship, and while they inhabit a different world it is still somehow familiar. The artist herself is right through every picture, sacrificed in a bravura display of colour and form that is as compelling as it is enigmatic.
As the artist herself says.
“I seem to be intent on filling space with interesting and arresting figures. Probably because I like people and I like crowds. I'm interested in the texture and pattern they make and the drama of their interaction. When you watch someone else of course you are in a sense learning to understand yourself.”
“People find my work variously uplifting, funny, disturbing, exciting and unusual. Which is probably about right.”
Exhibitions:
2004
Tolquhon Gallery Summer Exhibition
Crovie Bi-Annual Exhibition
Peacock Visual Arts A5 Exhibition
2005
Royal Scottish Academy , Edinburgh
Aberdeen Artists Annual Exhibition
Larks Gallery Summer Exhibition, Ballater
Tolquhon Gallery Summer Exhibition, Tarves
Resipole Gallery Summer Exhibition, Acharacle
Rendezvous Galley Corridor Exhibition, Aberdeen
Rendezvous Gallery Scholarship Exhibition, Aberdeen
Affordable Art Fair, Battersea, October 2005 with Riverside Gallery
Christmas Exhibition, Riverside Gallery
2006
Glasgow Art Fair with Riverside Gallery
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