Allyson Reynolds
Overview
Louis' gift, 2017
Allyson Reynolds paints moths. Her extraordinary large-scale images of randomly scattered moths on white grounds have achieved an international reputation. Living and working near Brisbane in Queensland, Australia, she is surrounded by lepidopteral life, and she has devoted herself to recording it beauty, its fragility and its variety.
She has developed a highly personal technique ideally suited to her subject. By painting 'wet on wet' with thinned down oil paints on fine linen she is able to achieve effects with unexampled delicacy. The subtle patterning and rich colouring of the moths appears almost to be a part of the canvas; there is scarcely a sense of the artist's hand, only of the image in all its purity and strength.
Moth Song a beautifully-produced book about Reynolds' art, with specially commissioned detailed photographs, was published in 2012.
Works
Exhibitions
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Allyson Reynolds 1 June - 1 July 2017 LondonShells, beetles, glass bottles, feathers, seed pods, keys. The paintings of Queensland artist Allyson Reynolds, with their menagerie of natural textures, seem to draw on the still life tradition of arranging everyday objects into a formal whole. Each painting evokes the cluttered worktop of the natural historian’s study, a Wunderkammer...Read more -
Australian Artists Month
Group Show, NYC 13 - 31 May 2013During the month of May, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, Mott Street, will be showcasing some of the most reputable and rising stars in Australia's contemporary art world, including David Bromley, Emma Hack, Toby Burrows, Perran Costi as well as phenomenal Aboriginal artists, Lloyd Kwilla, Reggie Hoosan and the late Norman Kingsley....Read more
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