Artist Kelly Luscombe Bea explores painting in her fabulous solo exhibition of large and small oil paintings at Gallery 525 entitled “Taking Off.”
Inspired by her sea voyages over the last year, Taking Off” is a showing of rich and luminous oil paintings that include water, night-time visions, and other narrative spins on life. Her works range from surreal, symbolic, sometimes humorous images to paintings of the sea and night passages bordering on abstraction.
To quote Kelly Luscombe Bea:
“Taking Off is about starting new journeys. It is also about what needs to be taken off, peeled away and left behind before a journey can begin. My new body of paintings tells the stories of time spent on the ocean over the last year from the Sea of Cortez to the Desolation Sound. From moments of intense beauty and stillness to that of approaching storms and white-knuckled danger to vivid dreams reflecting my existence during sleep, I’m sharing via paint my experience with life in its open-air, starry, kaleidoscopic fullness on a swaying boat in the sea ~ and the messages the ocean so generously gave to me.”
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Kelly Luscombe Bea: Taking Off Saturday, October 24, 2015, 5pm
Artist Kelly Luscombe Bea explores painting in her fabulous solo exhibition of large and small oil paintings at Gallery 525 entitled “Taking Off.”
Inspired by her sea voyages over the last year, Taking Off” is a showing of rich and luminous oil paintings that include water, night-time visions, and other narrative spins on life. Her works range from surreal, symbolic, sometimes humorous images to paintings of the sea and night passages bordering on abstraction. To quote Kelly Luscombe Bea: “Taking Off is about starting new journeys. It is also about what needs to be taken off or peeled away before that journey can begin. My new body of paintings "Taking Off" tells the stories of time spent on the ocean over the last year from the Sea of Cortez to the Desolation Sound and how that impacted my experience of the water, it's colorful, atmospheric effects and dream-like visions realized on a swaying boat." October 24 - November 29 at Gallery 525, 525 W. El Roblar Ave., Ojai, CA 93023 www.gallery525.com |