Hazel Frankel

My paintings make use of collage, acrylic, watercolour and ink, on paper and primed or unprimed canvas. They are highly coloured and semi-abstract in style with layered paper, material scraps, lace and kapok are combined with expressive paint marks. Letters are images in their own right. As containers of memory, the collages suggest both the beauty and destruction.

Large framed works invoke landscapes of the mind and the narrative of journeys.

Small works on paper are combinations of acknowledged and well known masterpieces with swirls of colours to highlight objects as well as defamiliarise them.

Other small paintings refer to the city of Jerusalem as a source of light and inspiration. Â

Scroll paintings hang heavily and loosely on the wall. Transportable artefacts which mimic the Torah scrolls of biblical times, their heavy accretions of paint and collage have been burnt and cut away in places, making metaphoric reference to the Holocaust.

Counting Sleeping Beauties
My novel has just been released by Jacana Press and will be available for sale at the Exhibition.