June 6th - 30th 2006
Private views took place:
Tuesday June 6, 6.30 - 8.30
Thursday June 8, 6.30 - 8.30
Sunday June 18, 12.00 - 3.00
The garden at Gallery 286 was also open on Sunday 18th as part of the 2006 Chelsea Festival.
Viewing was by appointment at other times.
For further information contact Jonathan Ross
by e-mail or phone 020 7370 2239.
View Victoria's previous exhibition at Gallery 286
"I like having different types of work going - canvas, work on paper and, recently, prints. Each medium has different limitations, and I concentrate on making a coherent image, usually including figures. I hope that by showing them together they will play off against each other".
Victoria Achache 2006
The sweeping lines and luscious colour of Matisse in his later south of France years are visible in Victoria Achache's paintings, prints and drawings. Victoria was always a colourist and her semi-abstract figures appear in and out of singing yellow, red, green and blue abstract shapes. The ideas that she previously explored in painting are now being developed through printmaking, colour and line adapted where appropriate as she works. Whereas many printmakers become obsessed with technique at the expense of ideas, Achache concentrates on her good draughtsmanship and love of colour, using whatever technique suits her at that time. A large drypoint shows figures in movement across the composition with blue and rust-brown-pink in between the figures. It is the movement that is new in her work. The drawings have always been good but this line in movement brings her closer to the late Matisse, yet stamps her work as definitively Victoria Achache 2006.
Heather Waddell
May 2006