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Conversations in Absentia - Christopher Broadhurst

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Christopher
Broadhurst
Conversations in Absentia
October
1-17, 2010
Opening
reception with the artist, Friday October 1, 7 - 10 pm
Conversations In Absentia
" ...As we grow older The world becomes stranger, the
pattern more complicated Of dead and living. Not the intense
moment Isolated , with no before and after, But a lifetime
burning in every moment..."
T S Eliot from East Coker
I think of the works in this exhibition , and this is true of
all my current work , as a kind of time travel . They are a
drawing out , from memory , of the threads of sensations , people
, places ,fragrances , objects , ideas and
relationships.....things from an ever expanding past.....and a
melding of them with their equivalents in an increasingly
changeable present . My hope is to create something that is more
than mere reflection paired with observation of momentary
experience . I am searching for something that also carries with
it an emotional weight that is both familiar and new ....
something personal that celebrates and mourns and rejoices in the
act of being .
I came to still life painting more than thirty years ago .I had
expected it to be a brief liason , a way to work myself out of a
creative block that was keeping me from what seemed at the time to
be more honourable, purely abstract pursuits .
Instead still life became ‘ a habit that liked me and stayed
‘.It has had the advantage of being considered by many to be an
old fashioned and unfashionable pursuit .This has given me the
freedom to develop a personal language without the concerns and
the dogma of any current trend and has allowed me an unencumbered
exploration of my own interior landscape.
Christopher Broadhurst, September, 2010

The image
above is a painting in
progress at Christopher's studio.
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Conversations in Absentia - A Night in the
Garden 2010. Oil on Canvas 72 X 36 inches

Conversations in Absentia - Forgetting 2010,
Oil on Canvas 48 X 24 inches

Conversations in Absentia - Sheharazade 2010, Oil on canvas 48 X 24 inches

Conversations in Absentia - Vanishing 2010,
Oil on Canvas 72 X 36 inches

Conversations in Absentia - Matin II 2010, Oil on Canvas 36 X
30 inches, 91 X 76 cm.

Conversations in Absentia -
Piazzolla Variation III 2010, Oil on Canvas 30 X 36 inches,
76 X 91 cm.

Conversations in Absentia - Ancestor 2010, Oil on canvas 30
X 26 inches, 76 X 66 cm.
 Conversations in Absentia
- Matin I 2010,
Oil on Canvas 30 X 30 inches, 76 X 76 cm.
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Conversations in Absentia - Contre Danse 2010, Oil on Canvas 60 X 40 inches

Conversations in Absentia - Poeticus 2010,
Oil on Canvas 36 X 30 inches


Conversations in Absentia - Still, and Still
Moving 2010, Oil on Canvas 40 X 60 inches
 Conversations in Absentia - Howe Island 2010, Oil on Canvas 60
X 72 inches

Conversations in Absentia - Gnossienne # 2 Oil on Canvas 30 X 30 inches


Conversations in Absentia - Matin III 2010,
Oil on Canvas 30 X 30 inches, 76 X 76 cm.

Conversations in Absentia -
Piazzolla Variation I 2010, Oil on Canvas 30 X 36 inches, 76
X 91 cm.
 Conversations in Absentia
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Piazzolla Variation II 2010, Oil on Canvas 30 X 30 inches, 76
X 76 cm.
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