AGNES TRAHERNE AT FEN DITTON GALLERY
Tending Apple Trees, oil on canvas, 100 x 120 cm
This exhibition is truly beautiful. It celebrates the mother and daughter bond in the Traherne family. Agnes’ mother appears in her paintings, inhabits her charcoal drawings and hangs side by side with her in the gallery. Her mother’s whimsical children’s art is a delight. It all echoes the Fen Ditton Gallery set up where Lotte (mother) is a well known photographer and artist Hannah (her daughter) an artist too.
Remarkable what a painting can do for the spirits. One look at Agnes Treherne’s numinous canvases and the heart lifts, gloom dispels and a new feeling of elation displaces everyday experience. Agnes Traherne has a soft special relationship with nature, her colour palette evokes the past with a suffusion of light and a sense of nostalgia. Her scenes trail our own memories , dream-like semi-surreal. Agnes studied Fine Art and History of Art at the University of Edinburgh, and graduated in 2010. She studies at The Royal Drawing School for three years and clearly imbibed the spirit of individuality in that place.
So take the Riverside path from Cambridge and revive that February malaise in a Spring like collection to brighten any soul. Or consider driving away with a wondrous piece from Agnes Traherne, for the price of a modest sofa, hang it on the wall and transform your life.
The Mission Cactus at San Juan Bautista, Pinwheel, oil on birch, 53 x 61 cm
Walking to Crowlink, emulsion and walnut ink on paper, 70 x 95.5 cm
