Elisabeth Cummings
Drill Hall Gallery Publishing
To enter into the world of Elisabeth Cummings is to invite a vibrant sensory experience. Now considered in the prime of her painting life after a ‘slow burn’ of some 50 years this monograph is a dedicated showcase of her ‘visually exciting’ paintings that oscillate between abstraction and representation of the motif. Cummings recounts, ‘I’ve tried to simplify, to get to an economy of expression. I try to eliminate and open the space because I get very congested… The whole push-pull that’s what interests me. The juggling of matter.’ Contributors include; Sioux Garside, Michael Kempson, John McDonald, Terence Maloon, Guy Warren, and Anna Johnson who adds the work is ‘packed full of playful erratic lines and a highly intimate sense of inner logic’.
