Commentary
“The Living Earth (exhibition) is a joyful, spontaneous ode to place and moment, distilled through experimental vision; this is artwork born in the land, nourished by wind and waves, sunshine and rain. These poetic paintings are a testament to Pascale’s dedication to capturing not just the physical soil of the living earth, but the soul of the Scottish landscape.”
“The Living Earth (exhibition) is a deeply moving witness statement – an exhibition bursting with positivity & hope ... the artist has a profound ability to distill the essence of a place, and to offer brightness and warmth, even in moments when they seem hard to find.”
“Pascale Rentsch’s light-touch depictions of land and sea painted in the open air along the East Lothian coastline are things of airy beauty”
“Pascale Rentsch has used loose washes and splashed paint to create an image that suggests...”
“When Pascale Rentsch talks about her paintings, she describes weather. Here is when the wind blew sand right into the palette. Here, it was so cold my watercolours froze. Here is a storm coming in over the Lammermuirs - and it’s there in the painting, a looming grey cloud which seems to draw closer even as we look - “I really had to rush to finish it!””
“Pascale Rentsch … demonstrating the great strengths and attractions of the fluidity and suppleness of the watercolour medium.”
“Pascale Rentsch’s ‘Windswept’ will have you sniffing the air for the salty tang of the east coast.”
“Pascale Rentsch paints outdoors to capture a vision of nature amidst the elements, such as in ‘Windswept’ which places the viewer right on the seaweed shoreline. Almost like a video film, the moment when the waves crash on the rocks is ‘snapped’ with a spontaneous splash of surf; above a flock of birds fly over in migration, perhaps heading south for winter sunshine.”
Windswept 2022, mixed media on heavy-weight watercolour paper, 58x76cm