Agathe Sorel
India: Flirting with Colour

Vickram Sethi , founder of The Arts Trust comments: “The combination of tradition and modernism sets the tone of Agathe's works which is evident in her Indian landscapes …in her sculptures she creates a symbolic language that is her own…She summons the viewer to wander into her pictures and the viewer helplessly surrenders to her diktat's”.

Mel Gooding , art critic, writer and curator of this exhibition writes: “With these mixed-media watercolour paintings of Indian scenes, Agathe Sorel breaks new ground once more in a long career that has always been marked by experiment and diversity in many media… An idiosyncratic modernist sensibility has engaged, to startling effect, with a vital culture in its present place and time…we are presented with a vividly personal; celebration of certain Indian realities”.

Of the work presented in this exhibition Agathe Sorel says, “My experience in India was a thrill.  There was so much to be inspired by. I worked on many sketch watercolours directly from the motif, but I feel that it is in the large watercolours painted in my studio, that I have managed to achieve a sense of the transparency of line engravings on three dimensional form, combined with the brilliant colour of the landscapes and figures”.