B1A: Art Review of Alison Musker 2010

B1A: Art Review of Alison Musker 2010

To talk about art as if my experience was enough, would not note the knowing well of knowledge and painting style that you have, and the twinkle in your eye when disturbed from painting for a cup of tea.

What sense have I to contact you in the hope of holding your attention. But in your best work is a historical trail, which brings home to me my personal journey when on 17 years old to Israel, as there are many programs at present with the talk of the Middle East. I see the lie of the land, in your work in the Bank Side Gallery, as we come to land in Tel Aviv, or the honing of land from the air in France where the inheritance laws have meant the farming strip is halved with each generation. Many a plot of the rice field in the Far East.

What I am trying to say that through the sheer talent of your landscapes is a conjuring of emotion, that had we see in the luck of the view you depict, we would choose to stay and live there. Some say the Greek Island mountain top should be a place of marriage.

The work is itself although evocative in pared to a degree in that the brush marks are ephereal. The language of the marks are reminiscent of the works of Paul Klee. Patchwork of hedged fields, with tiny detail where needed to delineate open ground, of stone. I cannot delve far enough to understand watercolour, the layering, smudging with a rag, and tentative use of sets of brushes to denote the swathe of land below. The saturation of colour and the dithering over what aspect needs to be painted next. From hence does the work look finished as an amateur, not the professional painter like yourself. The compositional depiction of space and devices to lead the eye around and down the valley, without hindrance. This is all very difficult for me to comprehend without considerable preparation and effort, re-crossing old idea and new. This I suspect you do in abundance. Your work is ironed, hemmed, and tied to the chart of not just hard work but sheer talent.

These techniques you do not just learn in an average fine art degree, but harbour as an internal churning of intelligent thought, resolving the best next step forward and not making the mistakes acrid, but a learning experience, You must have that temperament. The eagle eye of the lower landscape and preying on determination and diligence, charisma and talent. The workings of the mind are on canvas, but not all.

There is still learning there, I still smile when I see your painting.

B1A: Art Review of Alison Musker 2010Scale
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Artist: Allison Musker/Critic E. WallerTA:001681 £0.00
The Royal Society of Water colour Artists in London have Allison as a member and lecturer in water colour and her continuing portfolio of work. Bravo.

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