I've realized with the help of Kate (tks again!) that the Saatchi Gallery has an online exhibition showing all their "The Triumph of Painting". Having browsed through the several artists, even to re-visit the paintings I saw last Summer in London, I have come across Ena Swansea. I have chosen this "Gay Wedding" but the choice was difficult, any other could have been here. Vist Ena's page at the Saatchi's Gallery here.
And here is the text provided by the Gallery about this "Gay Wedding":
In Ena Swansea’s Gay Wedding, the artist draws unexpected narrative from painterly abstraction. Playing light against dark, Ena Swansea’s forms billow and writhe with delicate fancy: fairytale ‘goddesses’ of chastity, unblemished in their virginal gowns. Enshrined in silvery celebration, Ena Swansea’s scene is contorted with a certain stiffness: staged like actors in a play, the figures’ choreographed position carries underlying significance. Redolent of Paula Rego’s scenes of contemporary mythology, Ena Swansea’s monumental burlesque brides convey tumultuous undertones: demur beneath their flouncy parasol, wristwatch hidden behind a back, Ena Swansea portrays glorified romance as a folly of seduction.
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