Maria Kreyn’s exhibition, Dream Logic, was one of the highlights of London Art Week. Taking place at the 19th Century Swiss Church in Covent Garden, it was the perfect setting for Kreyn’s visionary paintings which combine Turner-style exterior landscapes with surrealist internal landscapes. A perfect storm, you might say, and for this New York painter, the inspiration was in fact one of culture’s most famous storm-based behemoth.
“They were inspired by Shakespeare’s The Tempest,” says Kreyn, taking the Standard around the work, “And the question I had for myself was what happens when you take out the figure? Can I with painting rewrite all of the beauty and wonder and intensity of human experience without necessarily pointing towards the figure literally?”
