Yasmin Dubrau

ENGLISH GARDENS, JAPANESE GARDENS, TOPIARY, JAPANESE ORIGAMI, PAPER, BOUQUETS AND SOFT ATMOSPHERIC GREEN

Exhibition 9 - 19th November 2005

Canary Gallery has become a conservatory in which to show Yasmin Dubrau’s greenery; a range of watercolour paintings and painted origami objects evoking bouquets and foliage. A likeness to the wintergarden is reinforced with tones of green and blue reflected in the white, vaulted space.

Yasmin’s practice as one that is light, explorative and founded on processes allowing her work to unfold and grow upon itself.

“It is my interest in formal exploration and study towards perfection that brings me to ‘The Decorative’. I am interested in the traditional use of sets of rules used to define beauty. It follows that I am also interested in Ikebana; the Japanese tradition of flower arranging that follows strict sets of guidelines on how arrangements must be achieved. There is no such thing as chance in the discipline of Ikebana. Origami is not so different nor is painting, for my purposes.”