Elementals and Incidentals

*Elementals & incidentals - a solo show of Cheryl Traub-Adler presented by Nel

Right now, painting seems to me to be the most tactile response to a world that is devoid of the closeness of touch. 
The intimacy of crowds has disappeared, and the nostalgia of travel is part of a deeper longing that is a sense of a reality lost.

My own imagination has turned to the narrative of paint on canvas, and the journey that these unconscious wonderings tell. This working is a type of synaesthesia, a sensing through a subjective lens and translation into colour and sensual textuality. An expressive style that is grounded in a deep understanding of painting and an ongoing collection of image-information over time.

This transmutation could be described as half dream-fantasy and half Surreal Abstract. With age freedom has overtaken fear and is manifest in a continual absorption of the primary purpose of the creative process. The work is testimony to this abandon and portrays a world that is located within a deepening understanding of alchemy and the mysterious ways of nature.