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 “…An atmosphere of harmony pervades British artist Rosina Lyford’s work. Shapes and colour interrelate,
there is nothing at odds. In these paintings
people in empathy unconsciously repeat each other’s gestures and resting
positions; so also do animals, birds and trees. Objects too: chairs,
tables, telephones, cups and saucers… Everything connects, through the
artist’s highly assured sense of rhythm and form.
The same
optimistic theme is continually explored and given out. Reality and fantasy
cheerfully combine in vibrant colour. Sexual relationships display a blend
of humour and sensuality as in the complementary forms of Black Adam, White
Eve, the lovers in the bath, a game of squash. Mere outward appearance is
less interesting to this artist than how it feels. Above all, feeling is
what is painted, from the inside, as it were, colour, shape and texture
used solely to this end. Her work is a celebration of the everyday world
that lives in our imagination...”
[ Jennifer Farley ]
“…Rosina Lyford, a British painter
currently crowding the galleries of London, will have a
premiere American Exhibition of her work in Westport this summer at
the unique Bauhhaus II studio of contemporary
art.
Lyford,
whose work has created a stir in the European art press, is a painter known
only to a handful of Americans. Therefore her work represents an excellent
potential investment since they are priced well below her growing
reputation would indicate. Her richly colored
figures express a decrative candor
which ahs intrigued many critics.
Wesport’s Bauhaus II has a permanent collection which
includes names like Picasso, Dali, Delaunay, Bleifeld and continous
additions of new and significant talents, such as the new import from the
British art world, Rosina Lyford…”
[ The Westport News. U.S.A. ]
“…I hate rigidity in art!-even the word sounds as thou it’s
been caught in solidifying concrete. What it is to move! What it is to
breathe, as being in acrylic on canvas…?!.
Quite, even very possible, and here’s the proof. Rosina Lyford an artist whose ability to capture
movement, grace, mod and form reaches the standard of Picasso, but with her
own vocabulary of understanding, that of gentleness and modesty. The paintings of this wonderful artist is an absolute
pleasure to see…”
[ Micheal Benenson. Where
To Go. The Arts. ]
“…Moving to the more avant garde and representing a statement of artistic
consciousness on canvas which was nurtured in the early 1970’s. Rosina Lyford’s inspirational portraits and landscapes
speak directly to the viewer’s subconscious mind needing little interpretation
or explanation. Lyford’s portraits at once honour her counter-culture roots
and the purely abstract realism of Michelangelo’s “Mona Lisa” in their
whimsical mood and remote, mythical casualness. In her landscapes Lyford
frequently dispenses with the formality of perspective in order to convey a
mood to express a deep emotional experience.
Rosina Lyford’s work is
direct in style and approach and dramatic in depth and feeling. Employing a
palette of stark, textural colours Lyford’s work is regarded by some as an
ideal expression of eco-conscious and yet her paintings stand alone as
works of the highest artistry and long term significance. Lyford’s work is
timeless, dreamlike, yet profoundly vital and in the truest sense life
affirming and uplifting…”
[ Sancia Scott-Portier ]
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