Marguerite Horner – Being from the Inside
6 June - 7 July 2013A Solo Exhibition.
Precisely because painting does not ‘copy’ things but presents them immediately and bodily … so that we seem to be present at the fission of ‘Being from the inside’ … painting gives a true sense of the internal animation of the world and what it means to see Merleau Ponty
Marguerite Horner’s practice is concerned with the non-material, a reality that is accessed through contemplation and painting. The value of a painting lies in its ability to induce a contemplative state in the viewer. As Walter Benjamin says ‘before it the spectator can abandon himself to his associations.’
For Horner, the value of contemplation lies in its ability to reconcile the heart and the mind into one. Horner looks into the ways in which man may be related to the infinite. Upon the framework of this enquiry her paintings aim to investigate, amongst other things, notions of transience, intimacy, loss and hope. Using the external world as a trigger or metaphor for these experiences and through a period of gestation and distillation, she makes a series of intuitive decisions that lead the work towards completion.
In her latest series of work the ‘external world’ is that of London, New York, Lincoln and the Catskills NY. From astute and minute observation of the day-to-day – a face at a window, reflected street lights or shuttered shops – she creates atmospheric canvases. We are forced to deliberate upon these moments that would normally disappear without trace or memory and consider the framework of our existence.
Private View Sunday 9 June from 2-5

Marguerite Horner
The Thin Blue 2013Oil on linen
20 x 20 cm
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Marguerite Horner
Holding Onto The Things I BelieveOil on paper
20 x 20 cm
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Marguerite Horner
For Sale 2013Oil on linen
50 x 50 cm
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Marguerite Horner
Caged 2013Oil on linen
50 x 50 cm
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Marguerite Horner
Immutable Light 2007Oil on canvas
92 x 122 cm
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Marguerite Horner
Forward 2013Oil on linen
50 x 50 cm
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Marguerite Horner
Leaning Out 2013Oil on linen
50 x 50 cm
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Blue Cloud 2013Oil on linen
50 x 50 cm
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Lamp 2012Oil on paper
20 x 20cm
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Ineffably Perceived 2007Oil on canvas
122 x 92 cm
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Marguerite Horner
Running Away 2012Oil on paper
20 x 20 cm
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Marguerite Horner
Lost 2011Oil on canvas
50 x 50 cm
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Time Keeps Slipping 2011Oil on canvas
50 x 50 cm
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Marguerite Horner
Wood for the Trees 2011Oil on canvas
50 x 50 cm
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Marguerite Horner
Walled in by Feelings 2007Oil on canvas
92 x 122 cm
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