Lisa Traxler presents her ‘space paintings’: a series of five sculptures framed within the windows of Pangolin London.
Through a complex surface colour system, Traxler creates direction and linear perspective on and with the sculptures playing with the boundaries of the second and third dimensions. These planes of pattern are broken and dissected with intention by the sculpture's configuration, appearing as a formation of camouflage perhaps and recalling the artists meticulous research into the dazzle and lozenge camouflages of World War One.
A move to the South coast of the Isle of Wight preceded this historical research. From the rolling landscape with weather worn coastline and a crumbling war time bunker that innovated the intricate slotted and hand-painted sculptures, the artist has captured architecture and landscape and the places we inhabit.
Through a detailed process of drawing, maquette building, painting and sketchbook work the artist has evolved a unique approach to her individual sculptures. These visual puzzles speculate on time, memory and relationship with place and those around us. These associations are evident in overlapping shapes, proportion and scale and the positive and negative spaces captured within the velvety darkness of the outer space of the Pangolin windows.
Traxler is a contemporary artist based on the Isle of Wight, UK. She has been recipient of a number of awards and has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions throughout the UK and Europe. Her work is held in both public and private collections. Traxler is an elected member of the London Group (2022), Royal Society of Sculptors (2017) and Royal Watercolour Society (2015).
