Atmospheric conditions… cloud fog mist smoke haze frost ice‘I have delighted in the combination of ‘atmospheric’ colours with solid, sharply angular, wood forms; in taking visual dives under the surface, the paint skin, into/onto the patterned grain of solid wood...’Virginia CoventryCoventry’s exhibition angles, shadows, atmospheres… contrasts floating, atmospheric colour with the hard edges of machine-cut wood. The burr and whorls of the warm, bright birch below Coventry’s layered paint inflects our perception of its colour– which, in turn, hangs over the wood like a veil. Coventry created the works from 2020-2022 during the east coast’s three wettest years on record due to La Niña. The way this affected the daily light in her studio, not just for a few days but for long periods of the year, is embedded into these works. Inherent in that also is the complicated nature of a globally changing climate and how it can affect things as zoomed-in as an artist’s work.