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artist: Tracey Watt artist: Toluwani Awodiya

When contemporary art writers try to put a painter into a box of ‘isms’ it is usually because
they cannot allow themselves to think that the paintings they are viewing really are of an
exceptionally originality. Every painter is force fed, they say with historical imagery and
modern art past-masters or academic theories.

To make a valid painting contribution to Art in the contemporary art world, and not be
satisfied by simply painting pictures for walls artists need to take risks.
Tracy is an artist who stands out because she does exactly that. And even the closest artist
to her image subjects, (perhaps Lucian Freud’s paintings of overweight women), pale into
‘shockable’ insignificance as far as Tracy’s unabashed images are concerned. What we see
in this show is a mere taste of her style, to see her strong imagery, please Google her.

Bold and bright, almost raw paintings of women and men in all their glory and all their
natural detail is a fabulous display of artistic freedom. With this art, I can only stand back
and admire the sheer authentic talent of this daring artist who has been taking risks for
some time. Many artists can paint totally real images, but sometimes we do need
a different view of humanity in its glorious complex beauty and vulgarity, do we not.