Daisy Parris @ Sim Smith Gallery

Daisy Parris’ use of light in the paintings in this exhibition creates an extraordinary luminosity that beams through dense, murky layers of oil, with paintings that seem to be lit from within.  References to the moon and the sky are coupled with raw, unsettling imagery of erosion and decay. Parris scratches and carves into the paint, unearthing tender gestures that sit beneath heavy downpours and gestural clouds.