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About The Artist: Petra McCarthy

Petra McCarthy's work is deliberately located within the expressionistic tradition of abstract painting. She explores a spontaneous type of organic abstraction but through a unique and radical process of inversion, which calls into question the formal concerns of colour and mark making. McCarthy applies layers of paint in a gestural manner on to a conventionally stretched canvas, before using a same-size Perspex panel to 'entrap' the paint...