'nuances' – a shade of expression, meaning, feeling or the like

Sydney artists Carolyn Jones & Lee Meskin come together with their own personal interpretations of ‘nuances’. Their painted imagery celebrates the subtleties of life often overlooked by individuals in our ever increasing pace of life.
This recent body of work by Carolyn Jones, her second exhibition at the Washhouse, continues to explore the timeless beauty of ‘vessels’ –  placed poetically on a ‘tableau’, within a café, restaurant or domestic environment. The ‘tableau’ often disregarded as mundane, understated or irrelevant & yet it provides the ambience of a space - a place for us to unwind or embrace friendships.
Ponder each ‘tableau’, the delicate balance of line & forms, the compositional placement of a single ‘vessel’ or a gathering of a collection of ‘bowls’, which evoke a meditative response of calm or serenity – the ‘nuances’ of emotions.  She looks for the simplicity in the chaos, looking to reduce forms to their essence, to capture a sense of place, time and continuity.

Colours awaken emotions in all of us; therein lies one’s own interpretation of ‘Nuances’– in her work Lee Meskin reveals her own mask, bringing a multitude of concepts to life on canvas. Share Lee’s Renaissance with her, as she unmasks herself within her paintings and explores the ‘dynamics of colour’, symbolic of the various ‘Chakras’ of the body. Be they spiritual, emotional, imaginative or physical - in that the body shall only venture to where the mind and heart have! Thus Lee’s journey continues as she immerses herself more deeply into the Australian Culture, clearly reflected through the ‘splashes of colour’ in her work with each piece taking on a life of its own.
A revelation of colour and texture; the transfer of thought and energy from mind to canvas: Lee Meskin……..The ‘Nuances of Colour’