Mhairi Treharne is a Canadian-born artist and has a studio in Cheltenham. Treharne’s distinctive work uses thinly veiled glazes on plaques, dapples of pigment, wood singe marks and wire stitching. Her pieces are often multidirectional, allowing the freedom to explore and view them as you wish.

 

Treharne prepares relatively small paintings from the wooden base up, wrapping and entwining them to finish. Ultimately, she produces paintings that feel complete and precious.

 

Her work is inspired by the desolate and pure spaces of her rural Canadian childhood, and the landscapes of her home and heritage in the United Kingdom. He is moved by the strangeness and fertile dark world of myth and legends embedded in the landscapes surrounding her home in Gloucestershire and heritage in Pembrokeshire and Dunbartonshire.

 

‘I aim to resolve a closeness to both my Canadian and British homelands. I am interested in creating small work that is precious and full of secrets.’

 

Her work is crafted to hang independently of traditional frames. Paintings are stitched with wires and filaments forming integrated picture wires on reverse; richly adorned small objects that are ready to place on the wall.

 

Mhairi has exhibited widely throughout the UK and in Canada.

 

Oil on decoratively burned ply, stitched with iron 

 

15x30cm