'...A new beginning, beckoning, change appeared.'

The working title “...a new beginning, beckoning, change appeared” from Rilke’s ‘Sonnets to Orpheus’ is apt as signaling the path forward with a series of new meditative works.

'...A new beginning, beckoning, change appeared.'

'All that is important is this one moment in movement.'

‘All that is important is this one moment in movement’ a quote by Martha Graham is the title of a body of work devoted to the beauty in mark making as a chorogoraphy for both artist and viewer.

'All that is important is this one moment in movement.'

If not now, when?

If not now, when?

Inside the Dance

Drawing dancers, endeavoring to capture the essence of their art, this selection charts my relationship with the dancer behind the scenes in the studio and on stage.

Inside the Dance

Absence and Presence

My ‘Burnt Wood’ drawings seem to offer internal spaces to explore, glimpses of the secret life of things evolving in a place we cannot see. The ‘Absence and Presence’ work evoke the transformative nature of the process of mourning.

Absence and Presence

New Horizons

These paintings are a response to the countries and cultures that have opened up new horizons for me.

New Horizons

Dancer Drawings

An ongoing series of works taken derived from the Royal Ballet rehearsal studios and arranged into suggestions and depictions of movement.

Dancer Drawings

Friezes

The friezes endeavor to communicate the essence of movement in dance. Working with both hands, absorbed by the power and intensity of the experience, the work is static while the eye is constantly kept moving across the image.

Friezes

'What makes art so good to live with'

'Full of mystery and menace, Read’s haunting groupings contain the contradictory imminences of childhood: its anxiety of isolation, its incidental violence, its consolation of beauty - John Lahr, Senior drama critic, The New Yorker'.

'What makes art so good to live with'

© Celia Read 2019