Gabriella Boyd’s works, she explains, ‘revolve around the merging of private and public spaces. I build up paintings of imagined locations in stages, often allowing purely formal considerations of colour and line to determine their direction. It is through this process that figures emerge. Psychological states become theatrically realised as characters’ inner and outer realities blur and shift’. Entering Boyd’s 2011 painting Blue Room, viewer morphs into voyeur. The canvas becomes a window into a charged interior, which twists the commonplace into the surreal. Rendered in a palette of balmy yellows, pinks, creams and cool blues, the painting effuses a dreamlike, hallucinatory glow, at once inviting and disquieting.

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