Garudio Studiage


_ _ _	At Westbourne Grove Church Art Space, Westbourne Grove Church ArtSpace, London, W11 2RW from October 23rd to December 16th 2009 In his book ‘Lore of The Unicorn’, Odell Shepard describes the Unicorn as being interesting ‘.. almost entirely as a denizen of “The Monarch Thought’s Dominion”’. i.e. as a creation of man’s imagination. There are many animals caught up in the unicorn legend, which have been commingled over time to produce various descriptions of the mysterious beast. These include the rhinoceros, the ibex, goat, ox, narwhal, okapi, and even the orang-utan! The story of the unicorn has been entwined with those of real animals, most just as strange and fascinating themselves, and reveal just as much about us and our engagement with the natural word, as they do about the unicorn itself.
Unicorn?Hand coloured screen print	Unicorne Fell, oil paint on canvas
Unicorne Connemara, oil paint on canvas	Unicorne Shire, oil paint on canvas
These vague and ambiguous descriptions have been worked upon by the imaginations of artists and writers over time, and Walsh is adding her interpretation.There are eight oil paintings all based on horses and ponies indigenous to the UK and Eire, making the most ordinary equines of our country extraordinary – or perhaps making theextraordinary unicorn ordinary? Included in the exhibtion is a ‘life size’ drawing of a unicorn thundering towards us, taking its title (’Unicorn from The Stars’) from the play by Yeats, where a young man experiences visions of unicorns trampling the ground. He struggles to interpret its meaning and symbolism, in a way what humans have been doing through the ages in their chase of the unicorn legend.

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At Westbourne Grove Church Art Space, Westbourne Grove Church ArtSpace, London, W11 2RW from October 23rd to December 16th 2009

In his book ‘Lore of The Unicorn’, Odell Shepard describes the Unicorn as being interesting ‘.. almost entirely as a denizen of “The Monarch Thought’s Dominion”’. i.e. as a creation of man’s imagination.

There are many animals caught up in the unicorn legend, which have been commingled over time to produce various descriptions of the mysterious beast. These include the rhinoceros, the ibex, goat, ox, narwhal, okapi, and even the orang-utan! The story of the unicorn has been entwined with those of real animals, most just as strange and fascinating themselves, and reveal just as much about us and our engagement with the natural word, as they do about the unicorn itself.

Unicorn?Hand coloured screen print

Unicorne Fell, oil paint on canvas

Unicorne Connemara, oil paint on canvas

Unicorne Shire, oil paint on canvas

These vague and ambiguous descriptions have been worked upon by the imaginations of artists and writers over time, and Walsh is adding her interpretation.There are eight oil paintings all based on horses and ponies indigenous to the UK and Eire, making the most ordinary equines of our country extraordinary – or perhaps making theextraordinary unicorn ordinary?

Included in the exhibtion is a ‘life size’ drawing of a unicorn thundering towards us, taking its title (’Unicorn from The Stars’) from the play by Yeats, where a young man experiences visions of unicorns trampling the ground. He struggles to interpret its meaning and symbolism, in a way what humans have been doing through the ages in their chase of the unicorn legend.