Having graduated from Goldsmiths with a Graduate Diploma in Fine art, and from Oxford with a BA in English Literature, Cecily Lasnet’s practice is developing as one of close reading, listening and looking where she records the spaces of her own lyrical subjectivity. Her practice incorporates painting, drawing, writing and bookmaking as mediums for recording moments in time, and time passing between moments. Cecily is showing a publication displayed as a series of prints whose genesis is in writing. Each print, built of layers of colour and translucency maps out a passing room of emotion in colour.

 

In Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde, insight involves sight that can pierce through an impediment to reach knowledge. Voyeurs to a narrative of secret love in falling Troy the readers’ gaze is trained through the keyholes of private spaces. To come close to the inner being of Chaucer’s characters, you have to must move successively through halls, corridors and chambers until finally reaching the most secluded rooms. In parallel, Cecily’s print works begin with an inwards glance. A glance taken as a memory, surfaces in a collection of dreaming, half-sleeping words. In that moment of inner sight, a feeling is seen as an embedded composition, soaked in colour.