Of hues and constructed spaces

We are delighted to announce the return of contemporary painter James Lai to Murrurundi with a spellbinding new series of expressive landscape paintings. Titled Of hues and constructed spaces, Lai’s latest series builds on the eye-catching visual language established by his solo exhibition Nature Theatre, which dazzled audiences in August last year and was an immediate hit with collectors and gallery visitors.

Conjuring his scenes with a distinctive, gesturally loose style and lashings of brilliant colour, Lai’s canvases see night and day beautifully intertwined as star-dusted and cloud-streaked skies sweep into tumbling, colour-soaked pastures. “Of hues and constructed spaces presents a series of figurative abstract landscape works that explore the interplay between theatre and the natural environment,” .

“Viewing the landscape as theatre, the works depict natural and atmospheric elements as characters within constructed, performative spaces,” says the artist. Lai brings his pastoral scenes to life with an added narrative dimension, reframing them as a stage for an energetic interplay of natural and abstract elements.

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