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Oriel Queens Hall Gallery, High Street, Narberth, Pembrokeshire, SA67
7AS [t] 01834 869454 Manager: Lynne Crompton
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HELEN COMERFORD: ENCAUSTIC PAINTINGS - June 4
- July 16, 2005
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Irish artist Helen Comerford's
Encaustic Paintings are exhibited at Oriel Queens Hall Gallery
from Saturday 4 June until 16 July. Unusually, there will not be
an
official
'opening'
for this exhibition, but Helen will be giving a talk on her work
at the 'closing' - at 2pm on Saturday 16 July.
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'Hidden in our everyday language are the most
profound truths, truths that have been known and forgotten
over millenia. For instance, it is well known that in most
European languages there is a direct connection between the
names used for the days of the week and the seven planets.
Saturn - Saturday [De Satern], Sun - Sunday,
Moon - Monday [De Luain, Lundy], Mars - Tuesday [Mardi, De
Mart], Mercury - Wednesday [Mercredi], Jupiter - Thursday [from
the Norse God Thor, Jupiter], Venus - Friday [from the Norse
God Freiya, also Venus].'
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![Moon [Monday], a work by helen comerford](../../../../gfx/2005/helencomerford/3.jpg)
moon - monday |
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moon - monday [detail] |
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moon - monday [detail] |
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mars - tuesday |
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mars - tuesday [detail] |
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mars - tuesday [detail] |
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venus - friday |
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venus - friday [detail] |
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'The Greeks, the Romans, the Nordic Peoples,
Celts etc., all had different names for these Deities, but
in essence they are the same entities, having the same charcteristics.
The comparative study of the legends and sagas of these peoples
has been well documented.
During a period of this research, I became intrigued with
the concreteness of the associative material that is all around
us in our daily lives - the birches, lightly swaying outside
my bedroom window, governed by Venus, the lead on my roof by
Saturn, the gold of my wedding ring by Sun - all bring into
everyday living these far-reaching and wonderful connections.
In this series of work I explore how the proscribed set of
metals, trees, colours, etc., create not just a particular
energy with each other, but an atmosphere that is so differentiated
that it becomes ever clearer that there are profound truths
hidden in this material.'
Helen Comerford |
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