Joshua Evans-Hooper

London, United Kingdom

About Joshua Evans-Hooper

Living and working in London. I work thinly over canvas with diluted acrylic paint and watercolour pencil, and then use deformed fields of colour to similarly deface and obscure human figures and landscapes. The painting is overworked and spaces on the canvas are left exposed to reinforce this dialectic notion. The brush strokes often range from gestural to contained marks and from facets of bold pigment to saturated pastel-like colours. I use colour themes from a Google algorithm, which finds images similar to the ones I upload. I upload photographs of lens flares or expired film and look for unusual gradients and juxtapositions of colour in these stolen/found photographs. When working from photographic sources the tendency is to use restraint when referring to the photo, so as not to produce a concrete location.

Education:

HNC Fine art - Kensington College 2012

(BA) Fine Art - Kingston University 2016

Exhibitions:

Summer salon, Islington Arts Factory, 2015.

Elemental Co-ordinator ‘Pylon’, Stanley Picker gallery, 2015.

America Square. Cavendish Gallery. February 2017.