Gallery 2| RMB Latitudes 2024

Gallery 2 is pleased to present a duo exhibition by Karin Daymond and Hermann Neibuhr. 

Karin Daymond - A sense of playfulness has crept into my recent landscapes, imagining what places would be like without human interference. Of course, my presence alone is a form of interference. Still, I am driven to try to capture the spirit of the place. I feel it through my painter’s eyes; it is in rhythm and patterns, light and dark, warmth and coolness, the way the light changes our perception of an environment. In this recent work particularly, it is the way shapes and marks seem to organise themselves as they become further away from us. A landscape belies an underlying awareness of both our significance and our insignificance in this world.

Hermann Niebuhr Statement - The Night Garden.

The Night Garden is a collection of paintings that have occupied me for the last year. They were born out of the electricity cuts in the country which had me going into the garden at night, to explore what would be revealed during the times of total darkness. Armed with a torch and a camera I set about looking for the treasures which were waiting to be revealed. An analogy to the mystic path of uncovering the treasure within is at play. As selective light plays onto the plant/flower and the viewer witnesses it, so it’s mysterious, magical true nature is revealed. The paintings produced in the studio are an equivalent of this experience. These are not mere botanical studies but rather alchemical formulas revealing the mystery that lies hidden by day, until seen in the purity of night. These paintings hold a charge, they reveal something of the natural world which is ‘hidden in plain sight’.

This show runs from 22 - 26 May 2024.