GILL ROCCA
After Equinox, 2014
100(w) x 50(h) cm
Archival print on Somerset Satin 300gsm paper with hand torn deckle edge
Edition of 60
£750.00
We’re pleased to introduce Gill Rocca’s most recent limited edition print After Equinox. Primarily a painter working in oils, Gill presents the fourth limited edition of her 20 year career, which is printed onto Somerset satin paper with a hand torn edge in an edition of 60.
A talented painter working in oils, Gill Rocca has been studying and recreating the beautiful landscape that surrounds us for many years. Always deserted and void of human presence, her works are above all about space and time, and encourages us to take a step back from our busy lives and take a moment to contemplate the world around us.
I’ve worked with Gill for a long time, perhaps twelve or thirteen years, and have always very much admired her recognisable talent with oils. Elegantly executed and perfectly blended, her paintings exude an effortless charm while transporting the viewer into a parallel world of tranquillity and stillness. Whether depicting a deserted country lane, an open field or a dark street corner, her imaginary scenes are familiar and comforting whilst having a ghostly sense of the unknown, and this for me is what makes them such powerful pieces.
The new print, After Equinox, is the third limited edition print Gill has taken from a painting. Featuring a line of trees reflected in the huge open lake they border, the print is based on Gill’s ‘Equinox’ series, a collection of large scale paintings she made over the last two years which have now sold out.
Minimal in colour with just a hint of pink and purple hues forming in the perfectly blended sky to depict either a rising or a setting sun, and varying shades of blue in the water, there’s an amazing sense of openness in this piece, which is echoed by the composition of the trees that extend beyond the edge of the paper and appear to go on forever. This piece has a real softness to it, with a delicate quality that mirrors the paintings, but allows it to stand on its own as a limited edition.
Signed and numbered in an edition of 60, After Equinox is available to buy through Eyestorm at £750 incl.VAT.
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