MINDING TOO MUCH

To play, press and hold the enter key. To stop, release the enter key.

I am glad to know that she reserve heartfelt sensations in her paintings by exploring her own life. There’s nothing else would be more honest and truthful. I am glad that the irrational treatments in the hospital didn’t remove her sensitivity, which was her weakness and her merit.

EXHIBITION

Minding Too Much: A Charlotte Johnson Wahl Retrospective

Mall Galleries

The Mall, London, SW1

7-12 September, 2015

DESCRIPTION OF THE ARTIST AND HER PAINTINGS

I've believed that it is amateur using a paragraph of text aside of the works for complete description.

However, I wouldn’t have been impressed if I didn’t read the description which described the artist’s life. At the beginning, I carelessly thought that her paintings were simply about a painful struggling in life. As I gradually realized her sorrowful situations, I began to feel the tears and love that she had been reserved all the way through.

ATTITUDE TO DISEASE

I don’t know what her intention was by using that hand gesture.

Looking at it, I imagined that she’s walking to this disaster, willingly and fearlessly, as if she embraces it.

I only wish I could cease her from going forward.

ASYMMETRY FRAMES

Some of the frames of the paintings are trapezium and even stretch out from the wall. It might be an incomplete of format. I wouldn't let it happen in my practice. But it doesn't really weaken the impact as long as we look deep into the works and feel what the artist felt.

In the making of art, I am always concerned of a perfect formula or a well-shaped object. Hardly was I aware of that the emotion of the artist is far more important than the perfection of the object.

CHARLOTTE JOHNSON WAHL

Charlotte J Wahl uses oil on canvas to document her own life.

She had been through a hard way in her life: being an intensively sensitive person since childhood; frequently moving house; difficult marriage; forced to overcome OCD by doing things that made her sick in Maudsley Psychiatric Hospital and forbidden to discuss about her anxieties; Parkinson’s disease.

MINDING TOO MUCH - Charlotte Johnson Wahl