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lesley coates jones

Lesley Coates Jones’ paintings are optimistic and celebratory. Not seeking to imitate life, they anticipate and share the unexpected. Abstract and semi-abstract, the work is informed by her interest in theatre, music, dance and literature. She has an ongoing fascination with ancient signs, texts and alphabets, and the alliance between painting and language, which enriches and sustains her work. Drawing is a crucial and integral part of her working process, as natural and spontaneous as breathing. She maintains that, rather than seeing to draw, we draw in order to see. The drawings are sourced from landscape, organic and manmade forms, and support the structure of the painting, underpinning its philosophical concerns, encouraging viewer participation and intrigue. This response to such mark making is so basic as to make the two way journey between painter and the painting, and the painting and the viewer challenging and rewarding.

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