Within a consistently strong Fine Art MA show at Norwich University of the Arts it was energising to encounter Emma Lee Cracknell’s work, a single painting hung in the centre of a divider wall generously flooded by natural light coming from the window to the side. 'II' (2014) is a 6 x 6 feet canvas, covered in a restrained palette of grey and Prussian blue pigments mixed together in subtly different hues and opacities and applied with a thick brush in warily defined strokes, layer upon layer, to suggest an overriding darkness. ≥ Read more
Selected by M ó n i ca N ú ñ e z La i s e ca
2014
MA[stars]
PG ≥10
Emma Lee Cracknell II, 2014 Oil on canvas, 183cm x 183cm Credit: Marzban Kapadia