Maggie Kyffin (art review)
March 8th, 2008
posted by Cptn
- The Blue Walnut Cafe, Chelston Torquay. March 6 - April 3
The Blue Walnut is fast becoming the place to be in Torquay. There’s such an array of events and goings on, which include film screenings, music evenings, art classes and book clubs, that it is The Bay’s de facto art centre.
It’s fitting then that the latest exhibition is collection of works from local and relatively new artist Maggie Kyffin.
Kyffin has been painting, mainly in acryllics, for two years and already has dabbled with a variety of styles and subjects, but she demonstrates a strong, personal ‘hand’ – as you would expect from a graphologist and calligrapher.
Throughout the work there’s a unifying retro chic I associate with the 70s.
Kyffin’s strength is her use of colour, most notable in her more Hello Dolly-type pictures where her sense of the theatrical is tempered by her bright, though not garish, palette.
Two of Kyffin’s more personal pieces are destined for assessment by the Royal Academy summer show, but you can catch them in Torquay until April 3.
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