Isobel Plent Das Gupta (born 1992) is concerned with stories and their contradictory power to enlighten and distract. Literature, film, history, social systems, and the stories we tell ourselves when we observe, imagine, and draw, are used as a lens for examining our values and desires, and to help her encounter and harness fleeting thoughts and feelings.
Isobel works in painting and printmaking, using an array of materials such as watercolour, acrylic, oil paint and pastels, on a variety of surfaces, including cardboard and wood. Recently, she has looked to the Renaissance masters for their treatment of narrative, light, form and colour, via the medium of print. She has found that the gulf between the painted plate and final image, allows for the unexpected and unfamiliar, and is a process she intends to evolve and deploy, a deliberate ‘wrong footing’ of sorts, in her painting practice.
After Titian IV
23 x 29cm, etching and monotype on paper
£590
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