Vuelo De Medianoche 1936

Grace Pailthorpe conjured ‘Vuelo De Medianoche’ with oil on canvas. Doesn’t it look like something that emerged from a dream? The painting teeters between abstraction and figuration, where shapes morph and meanings shift. I imagine Pailthorpe standing before the canvas, brush in hand, guided by intuition and the subconscious. See the way the blues and oranges push and pull against each other? It's as if she's building up layers of thought and feeling, each stroke a response to what came before. There’s something deeply personal in her work, a sense of searching and discovery. Pailthorpe, like other surrealist artists, such as Leonora Carrington and Remedios Varo, delved into the depths of the psyche, seeking to give form to the invisible forces that shape our perceptions. The physicality of the paint—thin in places, thicker in others—adds to this sense of immediacy. You can almost feel her presence in each mark. It’s a reminder that artists are always in conversation with each other, building on what came before, pushing the boundaries of what’s possible.