Biography
Leora Armstrong grew up on the West Coast of Scotland. This changing light, upon the landscape, which happens so dramatically and wonderfully has inspired her work.
The work has evolved around these issues of external light and reflection, working with edges or fields of colour using various media. Through building up the pieces with many layers, stories unfold. The current reductive landscapes with minimized colour, allow the viewer to experience the work as a sensed encounter of a place. There is a continual search into the memory of something lost, keeping a hint of the underneath without actually revealing what it is. The spatial illusion caused by the ever moving light is an enigma.
Circles and lines are a tracing of life with no beginning and no end, continually moving, always searching.
“There is a moment, a second really, that one can paint when the light is perfect…sometimes, before the sun passes and the glow of warmth has crept across the vista, the shadow of a cloud moves or after the rain storm, light reflecting not actual colour but one that is almost surreal, and yet, it is, for that one moment, the true colour.”
