2020 EXHIBITION
The Classical Response
7th - 28th november
Campden Gallery - High Street, Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, GL55 6AG | E: info@campdengallery.co.uk | T: 01386 841 555
Katherine Hamilton and the Classical Response
by Andrew Lambirth
Katherine Hamilton’s latest work has a new authority, especially in her treatment of light, and she paints with enhanced sophistication the dialogue between abstraction and depiction. For example, the witty Mondrianesque Table and Chairs, in which a high viewpoint on an ordinary interior affords the painter the opportunity to organise her canvas in a semblance of High Modernist abstraction, while still describing what she has seen. Neighbourhood, Chania offers similar pleasures, proposing a kind of folk cubism of boxy facets which is oddly pleasurable. In Mountain House, Uchiko, the empty interiors we have seen before in Hamilton’s work reach a new level of serene geometry. Its companion piece, Interior, Uchiko, is altogether less severe, gentled with a prospect of greenery and a pinkish balustrade, allowing in an element of the organic and idiosyncratic. Beehives, Crete is another highly enjoyable simplification of colour and form in Hamilton’s architectonic mode.
