For Cynthia Breusch, a poetic painter known for her dream-like imagery, the figure can be an entire universe. It makes for lush subject matter where beauty resists being an end in itself and is instead a by-product
of something deeper, even attempting the transcendent, showing us that on any day we are falling through portals of thought to our vast internal story – visions of unique rememberings, feelings and dreams. In Days Like These, her latest collection at Lethbridge Gallery, her trademark jewel-like colours and gestural, multi-layered and scumbled application of paint combine to create a surface that is alive, giving the feeling everything has been put down in one continuous flow.
Sometimes her protagonists hint at secrets or seem involved in some private quest. Back views or the tilt of a head, the way a hand rests or a body leans, the play of light and shadow on flesh can suggest life experience, tenderness, hesitation, moods, and seasons of the heart – a whole theatre of psychological
spaces and possibilities.
“I’ve always been interested in the state of reverie. I want to make visual that feeling when time seems to be both stopped and unending. And to convey a sense of longing – common to many of us I think – which can never quite be named.” – Cynthia Breusch
Image: Follow, 30 x 61cm | Acrylic on canvas
