"Fiabane’s show this year at Fleming Street Gallery, is especially exciting because in addition to the emotionally powerful seascapes for which she is so well known, the viewer is introduced to her moody, provocative paintings of interiors. The best way to describe many of Gabriella’s landscapes and seascapes is in musical terms, which are also the titles of some of her new works. The diptych “Gioioso” portrays Ballast Key on a sunny day; “Scherzo” has subtle colors describing the back country bathed in soft translucent light. Fiabane’s interiors are suspended in time. The titles of these elegantly subtle paintings relate to different times of day and days of the week. There is also a strong sense in these paintings of what is not there; the feeling that something has just occurred or is about to happen in the room. “The Thursday You Left” and “Saturday Is Gone” suggest a loss, the source of which is never really revealed, in the microcosm of the house by the sea, which is the subject of these mysterious interiors. Don’t miss this intriguing show and the opportunity to meet the artist at the opening reception."
