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Isla Hackney's method is "suggestive"' as opposed to "linear" and she likes to improvise, allowing the pigment to suggest the subject rather than attempting to follow some preordained plan. The mountain is a recurring theme in her work: monumentality of the mountain often emphasised at the expense of obtruding detail, while broken brushwork - evidence of the passing of time - aims to involve the onlooker imaginatively in the interpretation of this dramatic scene.
Isla's recent work explores the notion of time, place and space. In these paintings we see familiar places and spaces that imply physical sensation rather than precise location.
There is a feeling of movement and rhythm in the work that is dictated by the nature of the paint, its propensity to spread, stain and settle in pools, to drip and splatter when poured and to run in unpredictable ways. The process of painting intervenes, and the significance of these sources fades as the work takes on its own momentum.
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