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Tuesday 16-Mar-2010

Susie Vaughan and Gill Jones are demonstrating basket weaving and spinning.

A collaborative exhibition of paintings and poems by David Hornung and Michael Glover. What happens when a poet responds to a painting? Or to a painter when he responds to the words of a poet? The painter David Hornung and the poet Michael Glover have been seeking out concrete answers to these two questions over a number of summers in the Catskill Mountains of Upstate New York, where David Hornung has his studio. They have been making paintings and poems side by side, poems which try to capture the mood, the meaning, the elusive narrative of paintings just coming fresh into being, and paintings that seek to render the reach of words in colour, line and form. David Hornung's paintings have a kind of artful, almost a nave, simplicity. They draw on sources as wide as American Illuminism and Japanese woodcuts. They show us rural things - a lantern, a wooden house, the skull of an animal, a beached boat - and rural situations. A woman leaves a house, in sorrow or bewilderment. A man stares at a tree - is this a symbol or not? What is a man to a tree? This exhibition at Ace & Lion sets paintings and poems side by side, in conversation, for the first time, all twenty-three of them.

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