La Vie En Rose: A Celebration Of The Rose In Art And In Life
Head to Morningside Gallery to view La Vie En Rose, the first solo exhibition from renowned contemporary Scottish artist Alison McWhirter featuring 41 new paintings.
About La Vie En Rose: A Celebration Of The Rose In Art And In Life
An Edinburgh art gallery has announced its first solo exhibition of paintings from renowned contemporary Scottish artist Alison McWhirter.
La Vie En Rose opens in Morningside Gallery on Saturday 28th February and includes more than 41 new paintings which showcase the artist’s experimental, still life flower paintings and bold abstract compositions.
This first solo exhibition of Alison McWhirter’s paintings at Morningside Gallery brings together a series of abstract paintings alongside still lifes of roses grown in Alison’s own garden and painted from life. In the abstract works, the rose is a point of departure for Alison’s enquiry into rhythm, memory, and emotional resonance. In this respect, McWhirter aligns with a lineage of artists, from Joan Mitchell to Cy Twombly, who have used the rose not merely as symbol but as a vehicle for sensation, recollection, and emotional charge.
The exhibition’s title draws on the cultural resonance of ‘La Vie En Rose’ - both Édith Piaf’s 1946 song and the phrase itself - in which perception is altered by intimacy and affect. To see life ‘through rose-tinted glasses’ is not, here, to indulge sentimentality, but to acknowledge the conditions through which experience is filtered, translated, and made visible.
Ultimately, as throughout McWhirter’s practice, the paintings return to a single enduring subject: love. Two of the works take their titles from Shakespeare’s most celebrated sonnets, invoking one of the exhibition’s central concerns: the enduring human desire to resist time through art and through love. Through painting, Alison strives to get at the beauty in the things that surround us, to that which elevates us beyond reason. Her paintings seek what she has called ‘pure feeling’, embracing the mysterious nature of the creative process and the uncertainties it entails.
Eileadh Swan, director of Morningside Gallery said: “We’ve shown Alison’s paintings in the gallery for several years now, so we’re absolutely delighted to share our first solo exhibition of her work. Known for her rich and spontaneously applied oil paint, her work is exuberant in colour, technically assured and compositionally daring. There could be no more fitting form than the rose - Alison’s favourite flower - through which love, time, and attention are held in luminous and necessary tension.”
Based at Church Hill in Morningside, the gallery will display 41 new paintings for the exhibition, which can also be viewed online and toured as a virtual exhibition for anyone who can’t make it to Edinburgh.
The exhibition will run in the gallery from Saturday 28th February - Sunday 8th March, and is open to the public, with a Private View on Saturday 28th February from 2 - 4pm.
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