Innervision by Amy Hilton

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Amy Hilton

Innervision
August 14 — August 30, 2023

There is a light that emerges not from the external surface of our bodies but rather is birthed at the very core of our inner being. This universal radiance envelops and softens, causing color to spread and contours to gradually lose sharp edges. It transcends the picturesque in favor of the resplendent — a light in which the physics of serenity exists.

To realize this is to ‘see’ with ‘real’ eyes, to see what is real. A mode of observation that unveils intrinsic clarity — of the energy, the vitality behind material representation. A perception of inner truth.

Prairie is proud to present a new body of work by Paris-based artist Amy Hilton (b.1986, UK) created during her two-week summer residency. The works on paper aspire to reflect a visual vocabulary inspired by Hilton’s ongoing research into a series of lectures given by Rudolf Steiner in the early 1920s, on the 'nature of color' as well as the basic tenants of Theosophy: a formless higher reality, the geometrizing of the divine within nature, and a meaningful connection between the appearance of the physical world with the abstract forms of ultimate truth. 

Watercolor paintings created with raw gemstone pigments such as tourmaline, amethyst, rhodonite mixed with rainwater and dried in the sun and moonlight, as well as graphite and dry pastel drawings aspire to capture the lustrous, the luminous, and the shadow-bestowing qualities through form and color that manifest when gazing inward into the spirit. These are multi-colored emanations — the artists inner visions, thoughts and feelings that both flow and crystallize: a pursuit in harmony with Steiner's advice: 'to spiritualize the paper’.

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