Biography
For me my work is all about the loaded brush, the marks able to hold the emotion, I am the paint. The work should be like meeting someone you are physically attracted to, it should take your breath away. This is why, I think, my paintings seem always to be about sex violence and obsession and death, the deepest neurotic emotion, the dark insistent hand that locus of pain, that sensuous truth. I like to deal with issues that are forbidden both emotionally and politically.
" Locher gazes into and reactivates the curdled black tar baby pits of Robert Morris' tragic works, through painterly constructions which make the walls suspect in a lush disquiet. She has done this by taking an aspect of architectural tombstones and niches found in the walls of Columbaria- and has inserted these markers of mortality into another kind of space. They are seductive reminders of vitality stilled and transformed into dark matter. The works are ambivalent; windows around abjection and sludge, boxes of paint embodying fretted feelings peaks and magma curls which overflow and top out the blunt, rectangular power of broken beams and graveside boards". David Alan Mellor
