A SOLO SHOW BY TONI COGDELL | SHENFIELD
“As flickers of starlight in a constellation of living bodies, the figures in my paintings are solitary, but not alone. The inward moment they are captured in; their form fusing with paint marks, words, and textures, acts as a portal to spaces behind knowledge, a sensory sea of feeling, a self beneath our belief of the self. Us, simultaneously set in consciousness and clay." - Toni Cogdell
ABOUT THE ARTIST & OVERVIEW | TONI COGDELL
Toni Cogdell was born in Bristol, England, in 1979. While exhibiting her work across the UK as well as selling internationally, she has honed her process and techniques combining acrylic, spray paint, collage and oil paint to give voice to her expression; a personal style seeking to connect with the world around her.
Painting intuitively, in the space between figuration and abstraction Toni finds a freedom which allows her to go deeper into the intangible substance of the psyche and human condition without restricting or enforcing definitive ideas. Pulling recognisable truths into the work while opening to the unknown, her paintings are looking for a balance, a coming together of moments, a kind of imperfect beauty.
The works in this exhibition have been on journeys of their own, each hoping to reach a kind of harmony from the clutter of days spent painting, leaning toward something out of reach, looking to find traces of us interconnecting and communing.
