fantastic new artist: Camilla Symons

We visited Camilla's first London show at Gimpel Fils Gallery in Davies Street, Mayfair. Camilla recently graduated from Dundee College of Art and we love her detailed and delicate silver point drawings of natural and animal images. 

As an artist she  builds upon the vocabulary of animal images and symbols found in folklore, music and childhood stories, Symons depicts the baby bird that has fallen from its nest, the myxomatosis rabbit, or the crow with the broken wing. Combining the macabre and melancholy with a technique of drawing favoured for its delicacy, she meditates on the realities of life and death. Symons notes how, as an adult looking back on childhood discoveries of wounded animals, events that at one time seemed brutal, are looked upon with a resigned sadness and acceptance.  She makes some of nature's and folklore's images look utterly lovely. 
 
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