Netta Carey

Compassion

SEPTEMBER 2022 at CBG

NETTA CAREY Mirror, Mirror oil on canvas 98 x 125 cm

NC : “I was lucky enough to receive a formal training in art and design and the lessons I learned then are a fundamental part of my work to this day. A working study of composition, drawing from life, daily for months at a time, and an understanding of colour both in terms of design and energetic connection, are an essential part of who I am. In essence I try to capture a moment in time that resonates for longer than the moment that it takes to see it.”

Essentially Netta Carey is a colourfield painter. Her muses are clear to see – Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Helen Frankenhaler ……These artists emerged in New York in the 1940s and 50s distinct from the Abstract Expressionists such as Jackson Pollock who were more gestural and spontaneous in their painting. Quiet and contemplative, colourfield developed into an abstracted genre where ultimately colour reigned supreme and the viewer was transported to a meditative state of transcendence.

Mirror, Mirror focusses on form as much as colour with shapes juxtapositioned within the frame of the composition challenging us to explore and enquire. Netta’s palette is exquisite. She has a profound understanding of colour – note how the light in the reds are set off by the deep indigo blue.

In **Back To The Wild, **shown here at CBG last year, Nettaexplored the landscape and spirit of the Scottish Highlands at Alladale where Paul Lister over the 16 years created a rewilding project. Lister’s intention is to return the 23,000 acre estate to a natural woodland haven for wildlife, to include wolves, bears and lynx. Carey’s paintings captured the wild heart of Scotland where the landscape is untamed by the absence of human intrusion. Particularly she captured the quiet strength and beauty of Alladale in all its autumn richness - purple skies echoed the heather above russet-red bracken stretching across her canvases in bands of colour. Lochs gleamed across a spectrum of white. The exhibition sold out.

Netta Carey trained at the Paris American Academy (1982-83), London College of Printing (1984-87), Chelsea School of Art (1983-84) and L’Ecole Des Beaux Artes, Nantes (1986). She lives and works in Oxfordshire and Snowdonia where she has studios. Her work is placed in private collections in UK, France and USA.

In Back To The Wild, Netta Carey explores the landscape and spirit of the Scottish Highlands at Alladale where Paul Lister has over the past 16 years created a rewilding project. Lister’s intention is to return the 23,000 acre estate to a natural woodland haven for wildlife, to include wolves, bears and lynx. Carey’s paintings capture the wild heart of Scotland where scale is untamed by the absence of human intrusion. Particularly she captures the quiet strength and beauty of Alladale in all its autumn richness - purple skies echo the heather above russet-red bracken stretching across her canvases in bands of colour. Lochs gleam across a spectrum of white.