“The Breathing Space Room, with its light-filled, close-valued colours, consolidates this intention to provide space for contemplation, and goes further by provoking questions of a conceptual nature.”

After more than two decades employing variants of the orthogonal grid to explore the expressive potential of colour in her painting, Milly Ristvedt’s recent work disrupts this form to create a space of embodied reflection and contemplation. The verticality of her Breathing Space series functions as an invitation to the body of the viewer. The Breathing Space Room, with its light-filled, close-valued colours, consolidates this intention to provide space for contemplation, and goes further by provoking questions of a conceptual nature. The paintings that make up the Incidents series, which will also be on display, are relaxed in their relations to the grid, and the colour in each takes us to the earth from which most of its pigments derive.