| A substantial
body of Pauline Aitken's work has been concerned with
exploring the process of change and states of change through
the investigation of botanical or zoological forms where
structure is constantly transforming - the flux of life.
She translates and re-enacts the experience of these archetypes
over the surface of canvas, paper or metal plate where
the medium describes the process of transformation. The
description of this organic structure invariably involves
a change of scale which encourages the discovery of visual
metaphors for landscape, human form and human physiology.
Pauline was awarded an Eastern Arts Board grant to
use an electron microscope at University of Cambridge.
This brought about exciting new research generating
even closer investigation of surface tissue allowing
highly detailed observation of cell structures. It is
revealing an exciting 'new world', remarkable, fantastic,
intriguing and often very beautiful.
Pauline's current work is an exploration and celebration
of this unseen world.
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