TANYA LING: NEW EXPO THIS MARCH BY TOM KEMBERY
WORDS: TOM KEMBERY 9 March - 6 April 2018 Preview: 8 March, 6 - 8pm For her first solo show at the Mayor Gallery, Indian born British artist Tanya Ling will make a group of new Line Paintings that add to the series started in 2014 first shown at Alex Eagle, South Kensington. The works will be exclusively made in the gallery over one weekend before the show opens; sheets of paper will be hung while Ling with a paint kettle in one hand and paint brush in the other gets to work. Each of the approximately 20 works will share a single colour which for this season, is Dr. Ph. Martin's Cadmium Red, a red with an evocative 1970s orange hue. Dr. Ph. Martin’s Ultramarine and Dr Ph Martin's Sap Green were the colours used for the production run in 2015 and 2017 respectively and the works from 2014 were made in an ink identified in the studio as a Matisse blue. These early Matisse blue lines avoided each ...