VICTORIA

GALLERY

ACHACHEQUEST

19 MARCH - 11 MAY 2013

“The sweeping lines and luscious colour of Matisse in his later south of France years are visible in Victoria Achache’s paintings, prints and drawings. Victoria was always a colourist and her semi-abstract figures appear in and out of singing yellow, red, green and blue abstract shapes. The ideas that she previously ex-plored in painting are now beingdeveloped through printmak-ing, colour and line adapted where appropriate as she works.

Whereas many printmakers be-come obsessed with technique at the expense of ideas, Ach-ache concentrates on her good draughtsman- ship and love of colour, using whatever technique suits her at the time. A large dry-point shows figures in movement across the composition with blue and rust-brown-pink in between the figures. It is the movement that is new in her work. The draw-ings have always been good but this line in movement brings her

closer to the late Matisse, yet stamps her work as definitevly Victoria Achache.”Heather Waddell.

Above‘Figures in an Interior’

2005-6Oil on Canvas127 x 153 cm

Forms emerge from the glow and then dissolve again..

Victoria Achache lives and works in London. She paints figures of great suggestive qualities. Mys-terious and yet colourful, where the highlights of colour are of a tonal range to pose questions, rather than explain: ‘Dark fire lurks within the gene pool of Brit-ish painters. Victoria Achache has mastered it. She is becom-ing a great colourist, one whose forms emerge from the glow and dissolve within again. Her human presences are at once domestic and monumental, in the way of good Henry Moores. They are placed with an eye to the formal-ity of old portraits, be they paint-ings or photographs.They are awesome to the viewer and to each other. It is as if you must recognise, when life is pared back to its visual elements, that human beings are creatures of light while light lasts for them. Colour only exists between two darknesses and the dark is al-ways trying to breakthrough.’Lord Gowrie.

Above‘Two Passing Figures’

2012Oil on Canvas102 x 148 cm

Bellow‘Trees and Sea

2012Oil on Canvas

76 x 91 cm

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Specializing in contemporary fine and applied arts Quest Gallery has been established in Bath since 2004. Situated in the most vibrant gallery quarter of Bath nestled between the Circus and the Royal Crescent with a wide range of artistic influence togeth-er with bustling restaurants and other independent retailers this area of Bath is a certain destina-tion for lovers of Fine Art.

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Above‘Figure Lying Down

2012Oil on Canvas

81 x 122 cm