PRESS RELEASE
Daisy Richardson was born in Ireland in 1975 and studied art at Glasgow School of Art where she continues to work. After winning the BP Travel Award in 2002 she embarked on the Trans-Siberian Railway which lead her on an epic journey through Russia, and resulted in an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery. Travel has become an increasingly important element in her work, and in the last two years she has visited India, Nepal, China and the Canadian Arctic. The adventures and observations from these journeys are distilled into dreamlike landscapes, where animals become the main protagonists. Daisy Richardson's paintings have an atmosphere reminiscent of the early Renaissance masters, with the simple grandeur of Giotto's landscape settings and the delicacy of Pisanello. Combining two dimensional sculptures with traditional painting techniques, this exhibition will feature large cardboard cut-outs of trees suspended from the ceiling, teacups the size of a fingernail painted with a sable brush and nineteenth century tea-clippers cut out of teabags. These will transform the gallery into another world - a stage on which you can enter the unfolding drama of her work. Please click here to view Daisy Richardson's paintings For further information please contact Sarah Long or Tom Juneau at the gallery, 020 7834 1434 or email longandryle@btconnect.com
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