> Emma Haworth - Tales of the City: 30 May – 28 June 2008 AT Conway Street, London
Emma Haworth’s art is built upon observation. With meticulous attention she observes the ebb and flow of modern metropolitan life – in the streets, the parks, the squares of London and New York: it is a constantly shifting drama, of moving people and changing light, played out in a great architectural arena.
Haworth disciplines her vision of this teeming stage through long study as well as through sketching and photography. The scene before her is one of extraordinary complexity, a complexity that she readily embraces. Haworth is somehow able to distil both the telling, individual detail – the plastic bag caught in the branches of a winter tree, the Hyde Park sunbather’s slim-line briefcase - and a vital sense of the whole panorama – the quality of light falling through London plane trees or bouncing off New York skyscrapers, the sense of movement in a crowd, the sense of pleasure on a Bank Holiday.
Her chosen scenes are ones where every passing moment, every new viewpoint, offers a fresh combination of people, animals, buildings, cars, light, colours, and trees. People move – on foot, on roller-skates, on bikes; daylight turns to nightfall; winter turns to spring, summer drifts into autumn. And Haworth’s paintings celebrate these changes, sometimes fixing the moment, sometimes recording the change.
Haworth disciplines her vision of this teeming stage through long study as well as through sketching and photography. The scene before her is one of extraordinary complexity, a complexity that she readily embraces. Haworth is somehow able to distil both the telling, individual detail – the plastic bag caught in the branches of a winter tree, the Hyde Park sunbather’s slim-line briefcase - and a vital sense of the whole panorama – the quality of light falling through London plane trees or bouncing off New York skyscrapers, the sense of movement in a crowd, the sense of pleasure on a Bank Holiday.
Her chosen scenes are ones where every passing moment, every new viewpoint, offers a fresh combination of people, animals, buildings, cars, light, colours, and trees. People move – on foot, on roller-skates, on bikes; daylight turns to nightfall; winter turns to spring, summer drifts into autumn. And Haworth’s paintings celebrate these changes, sometimes fixing the moment, sometimes recording the change.
2a Conway St
Fitzroy Square
London
W1T 6BA
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