Works
  • Danelle Bergstrom, Burning Heart I, 2015
    Danelle Bergstrom
    Burning Heart I, 2015
    oil on linen
    92 x 92 cm
  • Danelle Bergstrom, Burning Heart II, 2015
    Danelle Bergstrom
    Burning Heart II, 2015
    oil on linen
    92 x 92 cm
  • Danelle Bergstrom, Burning Heart III, 2015
    Danelle Bergstrom
    Burning Heart III, 2015
    oil on linen
    92 x 92 cm
  • Danelle Bergstrom, Chinese Whispers I, 2015
    Danelle Bergstrom
    Chinese Whispers I, 2015
    oil on linen
    92 x 198 cm
  • Danelle Bergstrom, Chinese Whispers II, 2015
    Danelle Bergstrom
    Chinese Whispers II, 2015
    oil on linen
    92 x 198 cm
  • Danelle Bergstrom, Forever, 2015
    Danelle Bergstrom
    Forever, 2015
    oil on linen
    92 x 198 cm
  • Danelle Bergstrom, Glance, 2015
    Danelle Bergstrom
    Glance, 2015
    oil on linen
    61 x 61 cm
  • Danelle Bergstrom, Imprint, 2015
    Danelle Bergstrom
    Imprint, 2015
    oil on linen
    61 x 61 cm
  • Danelle Bergstrom, Morning Song I, 2015
    Danelle Bergstrom
    Morning Song I, 2015
    oil on linen
    92 x 244 cm
  • Danelle Bergstrom, Morning Song II, 2015
    Danelle Bergstrom
    Morning Song II, 2015
    oil on linen
    92 x 244 cm
  • Danelle Bergstrom, Rekindle, 2015
    Danelle Bergstrom
    Rekindle, 2015
    oil on linen
    61 x 61 cm
  • Danelle Bergstrom, Return I, 2015
    Danelle Bergstrom
    Return I, 2015
    oil on linen
    92 x 274 cm
  • Danelle Bergstrom, Return II, 2015
    Danelle Bergstrom
    Return II, 2015
    oil on linen
    92 x 274 cm
  • Danelle Bergstrom, Return III, 2015
    Danelle Bergstrom
    Return III, 2015
    oil on linen
    92 x 274 cm
  • Danelle Bergstrom, Rewind I, 2015
    Danelle Bergstrom
    Rewind I, 2015
    oil on linen
    61 x 61 cm
  • Danelle Bergstrom, Rewind II, 2015
    Danelle Bergstrom
    Rewind II, 2015
    oil on linen
    61 x 61 cm
  • Danelle Bergstrom, Rewind III, 2015
    Danelle Bergstrom
    Rewind III, 2015
    oil on linen
    61 x 61 cm
  • Danelle Bergstrom, Shannan's Gully II & III, 2015
    Danelle Bergstrom
    Shannan's Gully II & III, 2015
    oil on linen
    153 x 275 cm
  • Danelle Bergstrom, Silver I, 2015
    Danelle Bergstrom
    Silver I, 2015
    oil on linen
    107 x 214 cm
  • Danelle Bergstrom, Silver II, 2015
    Danelle Bergstrom
    Silver II, 2015
    oil on linen
    107 x 214 cm
  • Danelle Bergstrom, Silver III, 2015
    Danelle Bergstrom
    Silver III, 2015
    oil on linen
    107 x 214 cm
Exhibition Text

‘You are where your heart is’ says Danelle Bergstrom, who paints the land via mnemonic references and imaginative conjurings rather than literally en plain air. Meditative and transformative, her new works symptomise a quiet surrender to the heart – not in an indulgent or sentimental way, but as an honest and raw acceptance of self. A layering of ghostly greys and bluey lilacs entwined with earthy umbers and sandy browns creates a poignant vision of the landscape that lingers between representation and abstraction. With no defined perspectival focus to pull us in and anchor our gaze, the painterly scenes invoke a broader emotional and psychological exploration of environment.

 

Interested in the existential union between her psyche and the landscape of Hill End, Bergstrom pitches her paintings on ideas surrounding the ancient symbol of the Ouroboros – a serpent eating its own tail. Representing cyclicality, self-reflexivity and the philosophical notion of the ‘eternal return’, the Ouroboros encapsulates the artist’s continual return to and rekindling of the past in order to move forward through the present. In this way the works function as revised narratives – tangible footprints along well-trodden roads that wind through the artist’s memory.  For Bergstrom, this eternal march is never the same as she carries with her new experiences and evolving perspectives.

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