Marguerite Horner

Marguerite Horner
Marguerite Horner - Fine Artist - Painter
Born	Lincoln, England
Occupation	Artist
Website	Marguerite Horner [1]

Marguerite Horner (born in Lincoln ) says of her work “my paintings aim to investigate, among other things, notions of transience, intimacy, loss and hope.” Marguerite is a representational painter whose work presents us with snapshots of the seemingly mundane: an unexceptional window at the top of a residential building, a sliver of dual carriageway in profile, a petrol station, a rundown shop in a tired suburban street, or a solitary woodland walker. The very banality of these scenes suggests that they have nothing to hide. Yet, in almost every instance, what would ordinarily be the focal point of a painting is either obscured or omitted altogether. In many cases, the obscurant takes over as the focus. We are not looking at a view, but what adheres our ability to discover that view......Ms. Horner paints in monochrome. Occasionally, a fragment of color creeps in like a slash of muted cherry red on a car or a hint of pale blue in a cloud. However, that too, severs our reconciliation of the scene. It serves to augment the overall colorlessness, not to contradict it. The imposing, almost overwhelming chiaroscuro of her early paintings has softened lately, but a sense of the uncanny remains. There is a strong feeling that the narrative is being played out elsewhere, that we are missing something and perhaps willfully so. It is unsettling. Constantly, one feels the urge to look over the shoulder. A threat looms. It is a closed narrative, a Hitchcockian tale. In 2011 Horner exhibited at the 54th Venice Biennale in ‘Afternoon Tea‘ with WW Gallery and received her first London solo exhibition ‘The Seen and Unseen’‘ in 2012 at The Pitzhanger Manor Gallery in London. Her work has been acquired by a number of art museums including Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Falmouth Art Gallery, The Madison Museum of Fine Art, Rugby Art Gallery and Museum, Schneider Museum of Art, Sheffield City Art Gallery and Swindon Art Gallery.