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In Quiet Reverie

In Quiet Reverie

Date
3 June - 8 July 2017
  • A Particular Time
  • A Thoughtful Soul
  • Always in My Mind
  • Beauty in Nature
  • Bude's First Train
  • Camelot
  • Dove Muses
  • Elegant in Thought
  • Eren
  • Free to Wonder
  • He So Quiet
  • Her Thoughts So Still
  • He Left a Gift
  • Her Stillness Informs
  • I Hear You
  • Lexi
  • Lottie
  • Love Awaits Her
  • Moon Fly Promise
  • My Thoughts Are You
  • Not a Look Be Lost
  • Prince of Tulips
  • Princess of Waiting
  • Quiet Thoughts
  • Returning to You Today
  • So They Tell Me
  • Still Handsome with His Grey
  • Tanya
  • That My Heart Could Forget
  • The Entirely Beautiful
  • With Calm Resolve
  • Wrapped in Red

A certain amount of reverie is good, like a narcotic in discreet doses. It soothes the fever … and produces in the mind a soft, fresh vapour that corrects the all too angular contours of pure thought.

Victor Hugo

In thinking we make sense of the world in which we live; today more than at many earlier times there is much information and many unwieldy notions to corral into some shape within our psyche. Devoting time to this endeavour is time well used yet rarely do we give up space to be still and let our thoughts meander.

These paintings demand this of us, the frank gaze of each persona holding us in a moment in time, urging us to reflect. Behind the liquid eyes, closed lips and blushed skin we sense an active mind and a beating heart. These characters can seem to reach inside and pull out memories, stir up dreams and cultivate contemplation.

Irene Jones’ seemingly simple paintings are the result of a lengthy relationship with the panel and the paint and the face she seeks to capture and of course a lifetime filled with quiet reverie.

The exhibition has a love review in  Devon Life, take a read here:

Devon Life article

The exhibition features sculpture by Dean Patman of beasts inspired by heraldry.