Terrell James: Cues
Current exhibition
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The works reflect both inner and outer landscapes, where the organic shapes suggest plants, animals, fossils, and glaciers. Her images emerge in an intuitive way, guided by the subconscious. Some paintings only fully come together at the end, revealing a sense of place shaped by memory and discovered through the viewer’s experience.Colour is central to her practice. She creates original hues that bring light and depth to the surface through layering and subtle changes. Her open and imaginative approach encourages viewers to return and look again. Each encounter offers space for reflection and new meaning. Complex yet balanced, her paintings give the viewer freedom to see and feel in their own way.James’s expressions of her ‘familiar obsessions’ flow automatically and intuitively from the subconscious as her works unfold. Other works only resolve once completed, evoking a sense of place not intentionally designed but introduced by subconscious memory and found through interaction with the viewer. All of these paintings draw on her wealth of reference points in nature and personal experience but also in art and poetry.
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Working from her studio in her hometown of Houston, Texas, she produces both intimate canvases and vigorous mural-scale works in oil. James has been included in over two hundred group shows and has completed over fifty solo exhibitions across the world. Her work is included in many museum collections, including: The Boston Museum of Art, Dallas Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. In 2013, she was awarded the Design Award in Art by the Decorative Center of Houston. In 2016, she was named Texas Artist of the Year by the Art League Houston. She has been represented by Cadogan in London since 2015.
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