In her third solo exhibition at Flinders Lane Gallery Lilly Chorny presents the full range of her achievements. Reflecting a critical aesthetic, this new body of work appears to be drawn from elements of the landscape, without being limited to a literal comment about landscape or flora, instead evoking an emotional experience with nature.

Drenched with a tinted varnish offering a potent combination of absorbing beauty and alluring illusion, Chorny’s works point towards Oriental styles. Of her work she states, “There is an element of abstraction in oriental art but the essence and rhythm of life and form is always evident. This is what I am attracted to and inspired by and of course the use of brilliant colour”.

Beguiling, surprising, and seductive Chorny paints a strange universe - another reality that borders on the fantastic. Throughout this body of work there is a wonderful duality between the painterly passages, which have the flow and irregularity of nature, and motifs of the imagination. With expressionistic over-painting, these vignettes become enmeshed within the perceived depth of the painting.