Teresa Pemberton graduated from the University of Hertfordshire with a lst class honours in Fine Art (Painting) in l996 and exhibited widely during her life in Watford. Three years ago she relocated to Cornwall where she enjoys living by the estuary of the Tamar. About the paintings in this exhibiton she states:

"My work is always inspired by place. This time a tour around the” Golden Triangle” in Rajasthan, Northern India was the inspiration. Travelling through crowded cities and quieter villages, through deserts on camels and visiting impregnable fortresses of the Moghuls and palaces of the Maharajahs, it has been difficult to come to terms with the assortment of images. In fact I could go on forever using my sketchbooks and jottings. The chance to exhibit a variety of work arising from this trip has made me stop for a while and assess what has attracted me in terms of painting. I think it is the contrasts throughout the journey, of richness and poverty, of grand scale, and intimate meetings, of the decorative elements of the palaces, the mirrors and paintings and rich colour, and the desolate nature of the landscape and village roads. The bustle and business of the bazaars and markets at odds with the cool quiet spaces of the havelis and temples....
I have tried to combine the contrasts in terms of the expressive and the decorative (and the opposites of the abstract and the figurative). It has been a challenge to acknowledge the border between both of these and it is in these border spaces where elements that meld hold the excitement I felt. I am a first and foremost a colourist painter and strive to make my paintings “sing” with the vibrant mixes I use. The idea of “surface” is always in mind, using the idea of layers both physically and metaphorically.
As an added contrast I have included in the exhibition a few paintings which have come out of my new environment in Cornwall where I have now been living for three years."

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