Sutton Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new, ethereal paintings by Rosslynd Piggott that, in their subtle and eloquent style, provide painterly meditations on natural phenomena.

Piggott has produced a series of exquisitely detailed and finely textured paintings which evoke a quiet and reflective space. Featuring mysterious visual elements and profound depths of colour, each work invites the viewer to look, and then look again. Longing for a space to pause—to draw back from contemporary life—Piggott’s paintings slow our momentum, creating a space within which unhurried contemplation can occur and notions of collapse are subtly implied.

Piggott’s consideration of our sensory engagement with the natural world sees her induce a synaesthetic experience in many recent paintings by establishing poetic relationships between colour and scent. For example, the bruised pink hues of Evaporated Flower – Paeonia Suffruticosa are sourced directly from the Tree Peony (as it is commonly known) as a way for Piggott to capture the memory of this particular flower’s scent and texture. Beyond the sensory, other paintings are equally engaged with natural phenomena, such as Actual Event – Round Rainbow which depicts a surprisingly circular rainbow witnessed by the artist from an airplane window.

Influenced by natural forms, Japanese design and surrealistic figuration, Piggott’s practice is marked by an attention to aesthetics and the material properties of things. She works with a wide-range of media and techniques, including glass-blowing, fabric, painting, installation, drawing and photography, and maintains a fascination for the beautiful and poetic—air, glass, mirrors, fabric and flowers are all ongoing elements that permeate her visual vocabulary. Indeed, within Piggott’s work there exists an enduring desire to look beyond the mundane to the elusive and unknowable.