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United Kingdom
Painting, Oil on Canvas
Size: 47.2 W x 35.8 H x 0.8 D in
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Koi carp in a feeding frenzy. A confusing and chaotic vortex of yellow, orange and white carp. The complexity of this scene appealed to me as both a challenge to paint and a striking composition. The water's surface reduces some fish under it to ambiguous and flowing shapes while others burst above the surface to reach the food. I have tried to capture the bright colours and shimmering surface texture of the fish. To retain the bold appearance of the fish I have reduced many to a few block colours with greater focus and detail in the centre of the picture. Begun in 2005 this painting took five years to complete with the whole canvas being covered several times over before I was happy with the result. Oil on canvas over a stretcher type frame, this piece was dried for six months before being varnished to retain the vivid colours.
Painting:Oil on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:47.2 W x 35.8 H x 0.8 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
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I've explored many subjects over my thirty year practice but my current focus centres around multi-panelled pieces inspired by the mechanics of slide puzzles. In these palimpsest works, I apply multiple layers of images, marks and patterns so that they occupy the same composition but in different states, allowing images and motifs to undergo a transformative process between each layer. This method becomes a metaphor for exploring the intricacies of incompatibility or inevitability and can be disconcertingly jarring or consistently reaffirming dependent upon the work. The deliberate scattering and breaking of images, motifs and symbols allows me to explore many different ideas within a single compositional style and is, for me as an artist, a breakthrough in addressing the disorder and confusion I see in myself and the world around me. Alongside the multi-panelled pieces, I engage in the abstraction of complex subjects in my paintings. By deliberately introducing complexity and then allowing it to evolve into abstraction through the reductive process of painting, I seek to evoke pareidolic reactions from viewers — a reminder of our innate human tendency to find meaning in the seemingly abstract and unfamiliar.
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