Rebecca Harper introduces her exhibition Concrete Shadows held at Huxley-Parlour Gallery in Autumn 2019. Harper’s large-scale and lyrical paintings are rooted in a practice of drawing intensely from life. She interweaves these drawings from life with reconstructed scenes from memories, along with other mediated and second-hand imagery. Balancing both the particular and the universal, Harper seamlessly combines these many sources to produce plausible and richly detailed scenes that often feel dreamlike in their vivid and expressionistic colour palettes.