Erica Gray, Beach House With Courtyard 2022 acrylic on linen 102 x 76cm. Courtesy: the artist and Anthea Polson Art. 

The canvases in Erica Gray‘s latest exhibition explore her daydreams of home and garden. Exotic wildlife visitors are set amidst both tranquil garden vistas and the incongruity of soft furnishings, lavish wallpapers and parquetry floors that furbish domestic spaces.Her paintings aspire to thread together the narrative of life, joy, whimsy, calmness and ultimately, a sense of place and home. Erica’s painterly process unfolds in a largely intuitive way. Layers of multi-hued acrylic paint and decorative patterns evince the artist’s musings and reveries, in the hope that her imagery’s interplay of unusual visual relationships ushers the viewer beyond everyday concerns and into a heightened aesthetic and transcendent domain.

Opening Event: Saturday July 30, 4 – 6pm