Victoria Achache and Francois Pont

About

Victoria Achache lives and works in London. She paints figures of great suggestive qualities. Mysterious and yet colourful, where the highlights of colour are of a tonal range to pose questions, rather than explain: ‘Dark fire lurks within the gene pool of British painters. Victoria Achache has mastered it. She is becoming a great colourist, one whose forms emerge from the glow and dissolve within again. Her human presences are at once domestic and monumental, in the way of good Henry Moores. They are placed with an eye to the formality of old portraits, be they paintings or photographs. François Pont is particularly interested in traditional as well as experimental techniques of printmaking. He works on his own press in Lon- don, and in collaboration with Raymond Meyer, master printer and publisher of artists' books in Switzerland, where his large-scale prints are produced.