Lot 53

Work in very good condition. Minor brown surface spots in the upper centre. Light dust has settled onto the surface. Housed in a classic timber frame.


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Louise Hearman's paintings always intrigue, inviting a second, or third, or even fourth look. They appear first as darkly atmospheric landscapes or portraits, but we soon realise that things are not as they seem. We are left to imagine what is glimmering in the half-light or hiding in the shadows and Hearman revels in this ambiguity always leaving her works as 'untitled'.

Hearman works predominantly on a small scale with oil paints revisiting certain motifs throughout her work - a child's face, a partly concealed head, glowing beams of light, and often empty stretches of road or vast fields. These images have been collated from moments in her everyday life and brought together in often unsettling compositions. Hearman is a technical master, intently capturing flickers of light that are both beautiful and disfiguring, emphasising radiance yet also darkness.