Dreamscapes
kashya hildebrand gallery, Zurich
July 2007

The dreamscape paintings ask audiences to consider peripheries and the things that lie beneath the surface. Relationships are forged between the inner and outer world and a strange mix of imagery heighten senses.

The paintings encourage bridges to be left open between the unconscious and conscious states to allow embedded emotions and imagery to be revealed. The metaphysical worlds that Purcell creates relate to haiku, and it is by this method that she wishes the paintings to be read. As in a dream, it is futile to attempt interpretation, it is enough to be transported into the ghostly after-image of an intangible experience.