“A Melissa Egan painting has the power to transport the viewer far from the everyday and into another world where gravity has been cancelled and notions of time and place have long since dissolved. In her current series of works, the characters inhabiting the luminous realms reference those ‘quiet’ heroes who enliven our sensibilities and collude in our escapist dreams: the artists, poets, explorers and dissidents who have valiantly defied the status quo of their times.
The allure of the paintings stems not only from Egan’s diverse subjects but equally from her expressive depiction of them. Like the artists and the paintings she so delightfully pays homage to, Egan understands the effect of light and colour on the senses. With animated, spontaneous brushwork, story and landscape are fused in a radiance of subtle grandeur or gentle intimacy.” – Jacqueline Houghton
Anthea Polson Art
3 to 16 December, 2016
Queensland
Melissa Egan, Ode To The West Wind, Shelley, 2016, oil on linen , 91 x 121cm
Courtesy the artist and Anthea Polson Art, Queensland
