Lynne Cartlidge @ David Simon Contemporary

The work of two painters shown together for the first time, whose approaches to painting share a number of common elements.  Lynne Cartlidge, whose main focus is on still life, uses the subject as an endless source of experimentation with light and shadow.  Andy Waite’s paintings of remembered landscapes, drawing upon the tradition of the Romanticists, uses the handling of the subject to reflect his own wandering moods.  There is a softness and a warmth to both of these painters’ work.  Images emerge out of built up layers and a natural light pours over tablecloths and through the delicate petals of flowers, through heavy cloud and reflections on still waters.