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The Weight Of Story - Emotions that outlive the stories they tell.Solo Exhibition - Alecia LoxtonThe Weight of Story Emotions that outlive the stories they tell. Stories have always been my way of understanding the world. Myths, scriptures, and legends may seem distant, yet they endure because they carry emotions we still recognise.I am drawn to these stories for their fragile, human moments within them. In my paintings I return to the truth expressed in emotions written on the face and to the silence between action and consequence like Medusa before she hardens into stone, Medea weighing her choice with knife in hand, Pandora at the brink of opening her jar and Eros pausing before loosing his arrow. These are moments of hesitation, of decision, of carrying a weight that cannot be undone. I work slowly in oil, layering light and shadow to echo the chiaroscuro of the Old Masters, but always with the intent to bring the myth close, not to keep it distant. My palette is subdued, my figures solemn, their gazes steady. I am not retelling the story in words or in action, but in allowing memory itself to take form. The works in The Weight of Story are not about gods or monsters alone, but about us. They remind us that the emotions within myth outlive the stories that first carried them, and that in meeting the eyes of these figures, we are meeting something of ourselves. |
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 Artist: Alecia Loxton Title: Medusa Remembered - Oil on canvas 35x25cm  Artist: Alecia Loxton Title: The Silent Song - Oil on canvas 75x60cm  Artist: Alecia Loxton Title: Feathers Of Apostasy - Oil on canvas 60x60cm  Artist: Alecia Loxton Title: Becoming Myth - Oil on canvas 71x61cm  Artist: Alecia Loxton Title: Kallisti (For the fairest): - Oil on canvas 30x30cm  Artist: Alecia Loxton Title: In the hands of Eros - Oil on canvas 100x76cm  Artist: Alecia Loxton Title: Becoming stone - Oil on canvas 75x61cm  Artist: Alecia Loxton Title: The god who dies - Oil on canvas 60x50cm  Artist: Alecia Loxton Title: Crown of the drowning deep - Oil on canvas 60x50cm  Artist: Alecia Loxton Title: Fire of Colchis - Oil on canvas 50x40cm  Artist: Alecia Loxton Title: The last gift - Oil on canvas 60x50cm  Artist: Alecia Loxton Title: The weight we carry - Oil on canvas 100x76cm  Artist: Alecia Loxton Title: Persephone`s gaze - Oil on canvas 50x40cm  Artist: Alecia Loxton Title: The tender betrayal - Oil on canvas 75x60cm  Artist: Alecia Loxton Title: Matriarg Hoefdier (Afrikaans) `Matriarch hoofed animal` - 91x76cm  Artist: Alecia Loxton Title: Feeks (Afrikaans) shrew or witch - Oil on canvas 61x51cm  Artist: Alecia Loxton Title: Aardsmoeder Krulstert (Afrikaans) Earth mother curly tail - Oil on canvas 91x76cm  Artist: Alecia Loxton Title: Fruits of discord (the golden apples of Eris) - Oil on canvas 25x25cm  Artist: Alecia Loxton Title: The first mourning - Oil on canvas 180x120cm  Artist: Alecia Loxton Title: Whispers of Silenus - Oil on canvas 76x61cm | |||
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