Solo presentation of works by Elizabeth Magill at Lucent, Piccadilly London: In collaboration with Anthony Wilkinson Gallery

Magill’s paintings are enigmatic and evocative psychological takes on the traditional landscape genre. Rich with fragmented forms and kaleidoscopic patterning, the images are formed by Magill’s imagination, memories and photographs. The term ‘inscape’ has been used to describe Magill’s works - landscapes not conceived by direct observation but imbued with a sense of self and reflection. Though they have a cinematic beauty, her paintings are eerie and foreboding: trees or telephone wires conceal the view, birds flock in the night sky, silhouetted human figures against backdrops of hills, rocks and lakes and over everything there is intense and often lurid light. Recent paintings with their saturated hues and dark outlined forms convey an increasing sense of impending climate catastrophe. Her images are deeply rooted - as is her imagination – in the County Antrim coast of her childhood and the uneasy coexistence of a legendary landscape with a social history skewed by toxic political conflict.