Luke Elwes
16 October - 15 November 2002
NEW YORK




                



Luke Elwes' work is a potent mixture of exploration and meditation, a journey intent on mapping and integrating a path that is both internal and external.

The remote and ancient terrain he has sought out ­ deserts, mountains and, most recently, islands - has become fertile ground for his increasingly poetic and inventive use of paint.

His singular voice was identified early on by critics and collectors and his work has gained a significant following during a decade of successful exhibitions in London and Paris.

Now for the first time in New York Elwes will show a new group of paintings which combine his ongoing encounter with the small British island of Osea - a wild and marginal landscape - with a recent visit to Osprey Island off the coast of Maine. Through these latest journeys Elwes' work has achieved a new and exciting synthesis.