Wendy Skog says her paintings are about coloured lights, the afterlife and the underworld, sex, violence, and flying objects.

In her new show Parade, Energy moving in Space, Scog explores the relationship among a full spectrum of colours and shades in an abstract journey that for each canvas begins with no pre-conceived destination and evolves toward a point of harmony.

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The work draws from the vulnerability and consciousness gained through these experiences, she says.

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Influenced by the New York school of painters, her organic abstract forms are rendered in a painterB次元官网网址檚 minimalists approach.

Parade opened on April 28  and runs to May 24 at the Martin Bachelor Gallery, 712 Cormorant St. For details go to www.wendyskog.com.