HEAVENLY MARYS: Mothers and Madonnas is an  exhibition that features “head and shoulders” Marian [and Holy Mary] portraits on wooden panels, described by Harte as portraits on wooden panels inspired by 12^th to 17^th century, in Byzantine Eastern Orthodox icons from Greece and Russia, as well as Gothic Italian Madonnas.    The exhibition aims to create a sense of meditative stillness with its glowing iconic images, viewed by some as ‘windows into heaven,’ glowing iconic images create a sense of meditative stillness in today's busy world.  

Moreover, initially influential in the 20^th century upon early exponents of Modernism, including Wassily Kandinsky and Marc Chagall and Constructivist artist Vladimir Tatlin, and in a wider context in the work and influence of Henri Matisse, Gustav Klimt and Georges Rouault, and sustained in the 21^st century, through its continuing heightened response to colour and its refined summary treatment of the figure.  

DETAILS:  Anne Harte, HEAVENLY MARYS: Mothers and Madonnas

Art Hole, 336 St Asaph St,  8 – 11 May, 1 – 4pm – opens 7 May at 5.30pm

IMAGE: Anne Harte, Green Virgin, (after 'The Virgin Galaktotrophousa', attributed to Simon Usyakov, late 17th century, Moscow), 2023, acrylic and gesso on wooden panel