PRESS RELEASE
31.05.18 | For immediate use
Trudy Montgomery | The Mothers & The Daughters
Circle Contemporary,Wadebridge
16 to 30 June | 2018
Trudy Montgomery | Oracle | c-print mounted on aluminium | 127 x 100cm | £4,900
The Mothers & The Daughtersare the offspring of original abstract paintings by Trudy Montgomery referencing and honoring the Divine Feminine in all women. These paintings were conceived while the artist was pregnant and are only now, after a four-year gestation, ready for presentation in the world.
Trudy Montgomery has been working with imagery of the Divine Feminine since 2010 with her series of Union paintings, in which she searched for a dynamic balance between the opposing forces of masculine and feminine, a struggle experienced in herself and the world. Her own personal journey has seen a deepening of her connection with the Divine Feminine through meditation and spiritual reflection, also expressed in her series of Yantras painted in India in 2012.The Mothers & The Daughtersseries acknowledges the Divine Feminine as the source of birth, creation and the home of extraordinary creativity. Individual images also reference, quite by accident, the physical anatomy of a woman's vagina, womb and birth canal; the portal through which new life enters this world. It is, after all, our mothers and their daughters who embody the Divine Feminine today. While derivative of the parent works on canvas and in the same vivid palette, these new works offer something new: symmetry and a kaleidoscopic mysticism that evokes a sense of being at the threshold of another realm. Presented as digital c-prints on aluminum, these painterly photographs provide the viewer with an experience that is at once ancient and futuristic.
The Mothers can be seen as originating from the past and are created where the original image is reflected to the left, while The Daughters emerge when reflected to the right, referencing forward in time. The work can also be seen as a visual expression of the divine breath of the Great Mother, with the inhale representing The Mothers and the exhale, The Daughters.
In this time of girl power in the West, as the equal rights of women are given importance and credence in the media and upheld by the judiciary, it is fitting that this body of work is now exhibited for the first time.
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Editors Notes
Trudy Montgomery
Trudy Montgomery is one of the next generation of artists in Cornwall whose work is part of a direct line of British expressionist painting which has its roots in the ground-breaking abstraction of artists such as Patrick Heron and Peter Lanyon. Recently returned to the UK after fourteen years in California, she now lives and works in an idyllic corner of West Cornwall. Her tendency towards pure, bold colour on an immersive scale is influenced by the light and space of both the Californian and Cornish coast and the artist's own spiritual landscape. Her work has been exhibited in London, Dubai, Los Angeles and Berlin.
Circle Contemporary
Circle is a Fine Art Gallery located in North Cornwall. The gallery shows a selection of abstract and figurative artists whose primary inspiration is the natural landscape. Circle also represents European artists and exhibits some of the finest craftwork being made today. Gallerists Lucy Thorman and John O'Carroll run the gallery with a professional but relaxed vibe, in keeping with west coast gallery convention. John O'Carroll is also a visual artist with an onsite studio. The gallery is a cool and minimal space which is continually evolving, collecting emerging and well-known artists, alternating group and solo exhibitions, focusing on fresh and innovative art.
www.circlecontemporary.co.uk