Kerlin Gallery

Elizabeth Magill pink mineral, 2020 oil on canvas 12 x 15.9 in / 12.8 x 16.7 x 2 in framed

AVAILABLE $12,500.00

In 2020 Elizabeth Magill spent five months of lockdown on the coast of , swapping her east London studio for one nestled in the rural landscape which has long featured in her work. The result is a series of paintings, collectively titled 'Her Nature' that explore our physical and psychological relationship to the land. Each painting has its own, very different mood, its own story or mystery such as 'pink mineral,' with its fantastical 'red sky at night,' its title a reference to Rose Quartz, one of many earthly treasures or 'smoulder,' the contained, potential energy of a sleeping volcano. Magill has said of these new works: 'These particular paintings came out of this unusual time. They were my response to nature but are also a kind of lament to the strange times we are living in... perhaps too they are my attempt to suggest a beauty; a beauty created by distance and maybe the passing of time and an acknowledgment to things we can’t fully fathom'.

About the Artist: Elizabeth Magill b.1959, Canada. Lives and works in London and County Antrim, Northern Ireland Elizabeth Magill’s recent solo show ‘Headland’ toured to Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick, (2017); Museum, Belfast, (2018); Royal Hibernian Academy, (2018) and New Art Gallery, Walsall, UK, (2019). Other solo exhibitions include The Hugh Lane, Ireland, (2016); Towner Gallery & Museum, Eastbourne, UK, (2011); Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, travelling to Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes; BALTIC, Gateshead and Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea, (all 2005).

Magill's work is represented in many museum and public collections worldwide including those of TATE, London; The British Museum, London; The Irish Museum of Modern Art; The , Dublin; Ulster Museum, Belfast and the National Gallery of Australia, among others.