Lot 517: Vivienne Koorland, O Bear Me Away On Your Snowy Wings, triptych

Vivienne Koorland O Bear Me Away On Your Snowy Wings, triptych signed, dated 2006 and inscribed with the title oil on linen 91 by 205cm

Freud Museum, London, Reisemalheurs (Travel Woes), 2007"O Bear Me Away On Your Snowy Wings, 2006, captures movement's wonder and turns the melancholy of displacement into the promise of discovery.   With its smaller side canvases flanking the central large one like wings, their stitching pattern evoking feathers, the triptych suggests an imposing white bird.  But because this resemblance is schematic, the painting flutters between representation and abstraction.   The simplified surface, here cleared of the weight of historical consciousness, proposes a lightening of being - rendered also by the lowercase letters of the image's schoolgirl-like writing - eager for flight".  TJ Demos. (2007) Vivienne Koorland: Freud Museum http://www.viviennekoorland.com/images/exhibit_1264709041.pdf [19th January 2015]

Tamar Garb. (2007) Vivienne Koorland: Reisemalheurs (Travel Woes). London: Freud Museum, illustrated on back cover