'The Inward Eye' by Mylene O'Connor

About

'The Inward Eye' is an exhibition featuring the work of Mylene O'Connor begun during the solitude of lockdown and inspired by daily walks in and around the New Forest and by the sea. Her exuberant abstract and semi abstract monoprint collages are a response to the pleasure of countryside and coastal walks, inspired by natural and man-made pattern and line.

The title is taken from Wordsworth's poem, 'I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud',
where he talks of the image of daffodils flashing "upon that inward eye which is the bliss of solitude."

In the studio, drawing on the inspiration of her walks in nature, Mylene makes monoprints to produce a vocabulary of shape, texture and colour which she collages to form the landscapes and abstractions that take shape upon her 'inward eye'.