Lee Maelzer
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.
Lee Maelzer
"Landscape 1" 25 by 18 inches giclee print on Hahnemuhle rag