Corrie Chiswell
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About Corrie
Corrie’s striking art blurs the line between fantasy and reality. Her realistic yet highly stylised paintings transport the viewer into another world. She endeavours not simply to depict scenes and create narratives, but to connect with the viewer on a personal level. Whilst being able to detect recognisable emotions and experiences within her figures, we find ourselves searching for and drawing out our own individual narratives and meanings.
Her subjects, although frequently recognisable figures from fairy tales and mythology, contain a darker, more adult undercurrent within their dream-like settings.
Previously exhibited at:
Myth, Magic & Madness
9th Sep to 30th Oct 2011
Throughout history people have told and retold stories, and often through them have passed on covert insights into human nature via fantasy characters and scenarios. Over time a subtle language of metaphor and symboli... Read more