Terrell James: Trust

Entitled Trust, this new body of work marks a development in James’s practice, with a more graphic linear approach than previous works. Her paintings are interpretations of landscapes, internal and external. The organic shapes of her works allude directly to their origins in plants, animals, fossils and glaciers, but are also referenced in some of her titles; ‘Cleft’, ‘Isla’ and ‘Shell Scented’.

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.