Lines, shapes, and contrasting colours. Carmen Herrera’s art isn’t your typical painter’s, she uses her knowledge in architecture to make minimalistic pieces that wow. 

Currently on display in London’s The Perimeter Gallery, ‘Colour Me In’ is her first solo exhibition in London outside of Lisson Gallery. 

The Cuban-American artist has thirteen pieces on display for this exhibition. The main two to capture my attention were ‘Green’s Way’, a 1988 acrylic on canvas painting that capture’s the viewer’s eye by the illusion of shape the four rectangles make without even touching and the showstopping piece ‘Blue Angle on Orange’. 

Blue Angle on Orange is inviting and interesting. Centred, yet off-balanced. The lines on the painting are so perfectly straight but once taken a closer look, it almost appears as if the lines were drawn with a free hand. Anyone who is able to have this piece in their collection should be proud of themselves. 

Even at 105 year’s old, she’s still working from her home in New York City. ‘Colour Me In’ will be open until the 8th of January 2021 at The Perimeter gallery in London.