Night Lights, 2024, acrylic and ink on canvas, 30 x 30cm

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"Representation meets abstraction in the imagined landscapes of Aisha Bridgman’s lush acrylic paintings.  She aptly describes her current series as ‘moon-soaked’, capturing their almost paradoxical combination of clarity and mystery, stillness and implied action: is someone about to look up that periscope, and at what?  Is that a diving board under the night lights?  If so, will there be a diver?  Bridgman says her intention ‘is for the viewer to escape into and explore these otherworldly landscapes, with their linear structures and off-kilter habitats’, and I seem to have done just that…"

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Paul Carey-Kent, writer, art critic and curator​​