Daylight’s Feeling Forms at Hopkinson Mossman
Daylight’s Feeling Forms. Nicola Farquhar. Hopkinson Mossman. 5th July till 3rd August 2013 Nicola Farquhar’s current show at Hopkinson Mossman is titled Daylight’s Feeling Forms and features 11 paintings by the artist. As is to be expected by Farquhar, the paintings are portraits of women and each has been titled with a female name. The portraits are of a moderate scale maintaining a relationship with their source and creating an intimacy with the viewer. The artist has painted the figures in an abstracted style that results in illustration less of the physical attributes of the women she paints, but of something deeper and more insightful. The layering and varied methods of paint application by the artist concurrently conceal and reveal aspects of the figures character. This technique draws forth cellular imagery, thoughts of stratification and construction, giving the work a scientific facet that is very intriguing. This is balanced by the inclusion of vines and floral references in the work that offset the biology of the images with a decorative element. The division of the …