Francesca Simon

Résumé du livre

Repeated patterns of existence are mesmerisingly submerged within Francesca Simon's current paintings. The recent series of hinged triptychs is inspired by looking down at the world, noticing both the elusive and the systematic. She observes angled foreshortened combinations of geometric patterns, perhaps on tiled church floors (such as the Borromini pavement at San Giovanni in Laterano) or the rough designs and articulations of slanting or vertical stones in dry stone wall boundaries in the Yorkshire Moors. Simon is able to make fine archaeological judgements in relation to the adaptation and understanding of these disruptions and patterns. She observes the world with precision and logic, allowing the personal to interweave with the potency of illusionistic experience which then resurfaces in her paintings.--Laurence Noga.