Saturday 7 September 2024 - Friday 27 September 2024
Cherry Wright - Progression
Ogle Gallery
7th September - 27th September
Opening Celebration:
Sunday 8th September, 4pm - 6pm
Cherry Wright is an amateur abstract painter who has gained knowledge and honed her skills through various tertiary courses and community classes over the years. In 2003, while living in Sydney, she attended the School of Colour and Design, earning an Award of Excellence. Although the course did not focus on painting, it provided a good foundation for her future use of colour now evident in her work.
In 2022, Cherry received the 2D Merit Award at the We Art MAC Members’ Exhibition, followed by a display of her work at MAC Artspace in April 2023. She was the Runner Up at the Members’ Merit Awards Exhibition at Lake House Arts in 2023, leading to this exhibition at the Ogle Gallery in September 2024.
Cherry’s painting process is meticulous. She uses a small brush, building up many thin layers of colour, sometimes applying dabs and/or dots to achieve the desired cover. Where the layers of paint are more transparent, earlier pooling and patterns created in the neutral underpainting are visible, creating a sense of depth and hidden layers.
Her work often features transparent watery blues, sea greens, teals and turquoise hues accented with vivid oranges, mustards and bricky reds.
Recurring motifs in Cherry’s earlier painting include irregular organic forms and pod-like shapes. In response to global warming, she depicts parched or burnt landforms alongside areas of water saturation and flooding. Last year the Strata works evolved. Irregular, cross section-like blocks of colour represent seams of rock, soil and sand alongside vegetation and water. More recently, Cherry applies ‘looser’, sometimes more opaque paint applications to the canvas while creating more whimsical works.
Cherry continues to learn from each new painting which then informs the next.
“I hope that a viewer connects with a work I have spent many hours painting, and that it evokes something that makes them stop and view a little longer”
