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James Green

United Kingdom

Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

Size: 51.2 W x 61 H x 0.8 D in

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About The Artwork

Unique contemporary figurative painting - highly rich in texture, and riddled with beloved imperfections (including irregular shape canvas) which has become highly typical of my modern practice. In this gestural work, I simply allowed the figure to form organically - with no plan whatsoever. This ensures that the outcome is unique to myself and the specific moment. Painting in this way, in my opinion, helps the work to feel alive - forever. It has something of a heartbeat. My art is informed by our place and our people; the untampered commons I walk through each day and those I meet with and make connections. Framing guidelines for this painting: I often paint onto unstretched canvas and I typically advise for these unstretched works to be placed into large ‘box’ frames, floating over a mount, with ripped/torn/imperfect edges revealed. This presents the work effectively – in line with my modern practice – and maintains some authentic trace of the studio and the process. It is no question that I paint in a unique manner, and I prefer not to disguise this with unnecessary cosmetic layering (e.g stretching the unstretched/imperfect canvas around a ‘perfect’ stretcher frame)… I prefer to embrace/celebrate the imperfections. It feels more authentic this way.

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Painting:Acrylic on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:51.2 W x 61 H x 0.8 D in

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Green paints directly onto raw, unstretched canvas, working instinctively, without preamble or pause for thought. His earliest work was observational and figurative, with a kind of meticulous precision, but, having demonstrated this precocious skill, he felt free to cast-off formal technique and to work in a more expressive way, characterised by loose, vivid unpredictability. The first impression is of gestural vitality and rich painterly effect – bright colours merge into murky smudges; sharp definition blurs into misty formlessness. There are sweeping lines; scribbly detail; indistinct colour washes; paint drips, flows or clumps into crusty accretions. Suggestions of formal structure are quickly subverted. Amidst this abstract maelstrom there are hints of crude calligraphy, figuration and human faces – ambiguous, half-formed, partially erased. “The last decade has been about dissecting the human form in a process that is energetic, spontaneous and organic. I now find it more powerful to capture the essence of a person rather than to render an exact image. The paintings I make today are one-offs that I couldn’t replicate. They are unique to specific moments, authentic to me. I don’t look for or seek inspiration; I live my colourful life and allow that to guide the path for my practice.”

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