Kaye Donachie
Greetings Card Pack
£12
Limited edition pack of 5 Kaye Donachie greetings cards with envelopes, exclusive to House of Voltaire
Dimensions
A6
Finishing
Pack of 5 greetings cards with envelopes
Courtesy the artist and Maureen Paley
About The Artwork
Characteristic of Donachie’s work, these cards feature a dream-like portrait. Made up of layered washy strokes in blues and greys, the central figure gazes out of the frame. Donachie’s loose brushwork is held together by her delicate attention to detail. The figure’s pale, minimal features juxtapose the movement of their hair and surroundings, the brushstrokes of which drift wavelike through the scene. Donachie’s surreal and dream-like compositions combine both collage and painting, merging landscape with portraiture. This is illustrated here in the corner of the scene, where a moon appears over the blue, transforming the figure's hair into a seascape.
About Kaye Donachie
Kaye Donachie is a painter known for her muted, figurative paintings. Throughout her work, she interprets Avant-Garde women, using history and biography and an archive of found and personal imagery to conjure up characters and tableaus that are at once mysterious and deeply evocative. Often the paintings are a description of time and place that drift between dream and reality, an echo of the past re-imagined in the present.
Kaye Donachie was born in Glasgow and now lives and works in London, UK. Recent solo exhibitions include Into the Thousand Mirrors, Lismore Castle Arts, County Waterford; Like this. Before. Like waves, Morena di Luna, Hove; Silent As Glass, Maureen Paley, London; Under the clouds of her eyelids, Le Plateau Frac Île-de-France, Paris and Dearest...,The Fireplace Project, East Hampton, USA. Selected group exhibitions include Orlando at the Present Time, The Wolfson Gallery, Charleston, East Sussex; The Critic as Artist, Reading International, Reading; The Painting Show, Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Vilnius, Lithuania, travelled to Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick and Go Yang Cultural Foundation, Korea; (un mural, des tableaux), Le Plateau, Frac Île de France, Paris; Gen X,Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea S. Francesco, San Marino; Secret Societies, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt; and The Dark Monarch: Magic and Modernity in British Art, Tate St Ives.