ATMOSPHERIC AND SUGGESTIVE PAINTING

Angela Reilly works wholly in oil and is a figurative painter with an emphasis on light and tone. Concentrating mainly on the female form, her work is variously deep and powerful, moving and atmospheric, suggestive and commanding. Her work has an intriguing quality of offering on one hand clarity, and on the other, hidden depth. Investigating the luminosity and tone of flesh, Reilly’s paintings technically exude the precision of an old master. Unusually, her paintings becoming more detailed the larger their scale. Though almost photo-realist in their accuracy, Reilly’s work powerfully communicate what is felt as well as seen; realising the intangible. Reilly believes, “Portraiture is a preservation of ones memory not just preservation of appearance”.

[Source: Artodyssey]

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