Lee Maelzer's filmic paintings of cities, landscapes and interiors
are carefully worked and layered. Often there is a brooding mystery
and a hidden other story to unfold, if certain visual clues and
cyphers can be understood. Buildings belch smoke, crash in to the
sea or are torn apart in apocryphal ways. In other paintings simple
observations are beautifully observed - the way of seeing and language
developed creates an interdependence which makes the artist own
her subject and the subject in turn control her inescapably.
Her paintings, seemingly both nostalgic and traditional, have a
sting in the tail, offering a contemporary vision of the world told
with traditional and technical craft. The observation of Vuillard
with the realities of today.
A graduate from The Royal College of Art, she has work in international
collections and she has exhibited widely in Britain in group shows
such as the prestigious John Moores painting exhibition at the Walker
Art Gallery, the BP Portrait Award, the Hunting Art Prizes and in
Germany, Amsterdam, Los Angeles, New York and Switzerland. She has
carried out residences abroad including an Arts Council of England
Residency in Colima, Mexico and the Abbey Fellowship at the British
School in Rome.
This is her second solo show of paintings in London.
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