Nina Stallwood
One painting that was posted on the TAG group on facebook that caught my eye was
a work by Nina. It was entitled Luminance 2 (the painting above). I imagined there was
also a Luminance 1 - somewhere - which I guessed a collector had snapped up.
There was something very appealing in the semi-abstract shapes and the un-natural
colour lines that appealed to my aesthetic.
It is probably this transient quality in paintings that I like more and more, as I view the
hundreds of work each week for recommendation to Tubes. I have read from her web site
biography, Nina was a photographer, before she turned to creating art with pigments,
a brush and her obvious artistic sensitivities.
This could explain why Nina herself prefers the uncertain image rather than the ‘totally’
photographic translations or reproductions that many people seem to favour these days.