"Imago is a mysterious word: its sound holds associations with the representational
image, but it also contains whispers of the magical, of incantation. In entomology, the
imago defines the final adult stage of a winged insect, which has a clear link to
Imogen Allen’s semi-abstracted paintings of butterfly wings. But there is also a sense
of development and emergence in the concept of the imago, of brief ephemeral
moments and of representations that step half a pace ahead of reality." Anna Souter
An upcoming exhibition of paintings by Imogen Allen and Anne-Cairney Raines.