The Directors of Marlborough Fine Art are delighted to announce their forthcoming exhibition of new work by Nina Murdoch which follows on from her very successful exhibition Shedding Light held here in 2011.

As Andrew Lambirth writes in his excellent catalogue introduction:

Blakean outpourings of dazzling light rendered in colour that is subtle but also explosive, with a burnished patina of marks and sheens, characterize Nina Murdoch’s latest paintings. Sometimes, the paint seems to float, tied neither to the picture surface nor to any recognized distance within the image. She depicts what could be a flare path to an underground car park or bunker, the undramatic subject of corridor and underpass lit to an unearthly pitch. This might be underworld light yet it is celebratory, beneficent, not hellish and destructive. She returns again and again to the same places for inspiration: to the streets and buildings of south London, to a bunker in Devon, a car park in France. A painting may be sparked off by something as apparently simple as reflections on wet tarmac, but in other respects Murdoch’s gritty urban subjects are also an excuse to paint an ‘incredible ultramarine blue’ she has seen and marvelled at.

The sumptuousness of colour in the painting entitled Lamberth Marche II 2014 is distinctly reminiscent of Monet’s Nympheas paintings. However, Nina’s unique method of painting renders her work individual and relate to her emotional involvement with the shifting light within urban spaces.

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