Starting from December 4th, Art on Sunday proudly presents:

Ten new paintings by AUDREY

Audrey Wallace-Tailor's productivity - ten paintings in half a year - would make any artist proud, but for someone in her seventies it is no less then remarkable. And what beautiful works they are! How does she do it? The usual place to find Audrey is in her studio. In fact, she seems to be working from dawn to dusk, 7 days a week. An artist to the core, without glamour or pretense, she is a phenomenon in our midst.

Statement by Audrey

Dear viewer

Welcome to my last six months of exploration. Since i have been in Auroville I have slowly let fall away the fashions, asumptions and teachings of the paintingworld. I have set such exitement and pleasure through this latest journey. Four of these paintings continue my development of the Congruence series using shapes from my black and white Congruence Mandala. The rest remind me of what Francoise Gilot told me years ago: "Your process is making order out of chaos". In any event, my work is going on in my personal journey. For this I feel quite blessed. I hope you will enjoy.

Audrey Wallace-Tailor

Short biography

For a person who has worked in the art field since the early sixties, Audrey is a low profile artist. She studied painting at the art institute of San Fransisco. She has had many group shows as well as solos. She helped found a cooperative gallery in Alameda, California, and worked on an installation honouring women, now permanently in the Brooklyn museum.

In Auroville, she has opened an atelier in the community Creativity in order to facilitate regular workshops, reintroducing people to their own self expression and stimulating them to engage in community art projects. Her work is in many private collections in India, Europe and the USA.

What others say

What does it look like when colors, forms, waves, textures, calligraphy overlap and converge into a thought abstraction? While fully embedded in the contemporary art tradition, the works of Audrey, careful explorations in form and color, invariably point to evolution, to Gaia in her multitude of forms. And to poetry.

Obviously, color is of great importance in her work. Vibrant as in bougainvilea flowers, lucid as in the impressionist dots of light representing a bird ready to take off, subtle as in the painting "Whispered Form", where golden yellow is brought to the verge of white, thus creating a veil that is almost not there.

From an article by Charu (summary)