One of the most attractive things about interpretative or expressive painting is that it offers the potential for alternative readings from the artist and viewer alike. Conversely, objective painting has less freedom in that we read representational imagery in the same way as we assimilate our physical surroundings - i.e. any discordance in drafting or colourmixing rankles with our perception of rationality.
Marja van Kampen rises above such concerns, producing work which operates beyond the immutable strictures of purist figuration. Typically then, she distorts colour, twists space and turns solidity into transparency. This has the effect of transforming her subjects into near mythical landscape, as factories, cranes and lighthouses almost become visions of Arcadia rather than the rusting, hulking forms that they originally must have been.
These reinterpretations then sit comfortably beside more obviously lyrical work such as The Poet's Dream, where beautifully-stylised swans nestling in a foreground are echoed by economically-rendered trees in the distance. Elsewhere, the artist simplifies even further by taking organic references of trees and roots to the boundaries of abstraction, allowing the twisting forms to create a skeletal structure on which some beautiful colour relationships are hung.
Until November 8th.