Lyles & King is pleased to present A Skeleton to Share, an exhibition of new gouache on paper paintings by London-based artist Jessie Makinson. Makinson's new paintings flow like an interwoven collection of short stories. They are intimate in scale, exquisitely rendered, and demand slow, sustained attention. Composed of gouache with inflections of colored pencil, the works carry the precision and compressed intensity of Persian and Turkish miniature painting, a tradition the artist has engaged since her studies in Edinburgh. Flat, foregrounded pictorial space akin to early Renaissance painting, teamed with richly layered color, lends each work a fertile resonance. Each painting is a world unto itself that Makinson threads together with recurring figures, objects, and environments.
