SYNAESTHESIA

Elizabeth Haines

Oct 18th - Nov 22nd

Synaesthesia: someone asked me, is it a gift or an affliction? I think it’s both, but it’s certainly a gift for an artist. This ‘meeting of the senses’ takes a unique form with everyone who suffers from it. Some people have an irrevocable association between colours and numbers, or colours and days of the week; some can ‘taste’ sounds, and others hear certain notes when seeing a particular colour, or ‘see’ a scent. It means that the sense modalities, usually located in different areas of the brain, somehow leach into each other.

Elizabeth Haines has developed a distinctive voice that balances observation, poetry, and imagination. Her work straddles the boundary between representation and abstraction: drawing from the landscapes of Wales, informed by years sketching from nature, yet transformed through memory and dreams.

Elizabeth's art is rich in texture, colour, and inner space. Her studio practice is deeply connected to her surroundings: the rugged terrain, changing light of Pembrokeshire feed her work, but so too do poetry and music
Her paintings invite the viewer in: at first through colour, surface, and form; then deeper, toward architecture, trees, or horizons suggested rather than stated.

Next Exhibition

The Members’ Winter Open Exhibition

It’s Magic

Nov 29th - Jan