Limerence, The Nature of the Romantic Landscape

LIMERENCE 2006
Romantic Landscape Paintings by Bernadette Trela

Limerance a definition: A powerful and constantly distracting obsessive infatuation.
Dorothy Tennov, Love and Limerence.

Nature is usually wrong
James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)

I am researching Romantic Landscape painting in a Contempory context of intimacy and emotional response.
The body of paintings created forms my investigation of the Romantic landscape in response to intimacy, intuition and emotion. Through the use of dark and tonal paint, abstract compositions and representational forms I endeavour to evoke works that are emotive, intimate, romantic and atmospheric.
Nature is the motif of these feelings. Through the use of dark and tonal paint, abstract compositions and representational forms

To paint the exhibition I looked at the romantic, emotional, feeling responses to landscape painting and the landscape itself.
Using the concept of limerence as my emotion, theme and minimal abstracted Landscape compositions I painted a body of work in the studio that is formal in approach and yet intuitive.
I have explored the notion of intimacy and emotional response relating to myself the artist and the audience involved.