Nerina Lascelles

Recent Exhibition Catalogue

The art of Nerina Lascelles inhabits an otherworldly atmosphere in which forms and symbols have begun to soften and dissolve, and viewers find themselves conveyed into mysterious beyonds that emerge in the serene light of alluring distances.

Lascelles’ journey has followed the relationship between transcendence and art across a range of Eastern philosophical traditions within which visual art and poetry are used as aids to meditation: a practice that explains why we can read poetry by Zen poet Matsuo Basho as one might take bearings by consulting a navigational instrument.

If, for instance, on a walking tour over a mountain range, we fell ill and were compelled to convalesce at a wayside inn, our deeper thoughts and dreams may well carry on regardless. They would, we can only imagine, attain ever loftier heights, while penetrating ever further into imponderable distances.

Sick on a journey –

over parched fields

dreams wander on

Matsou Basho, 1694

It is the otherworldly vistas encountered on these latter expeditions that Lascelles has chosen as the principal subject for her art.