2LC DipSymMF (XXL) Painting

A major large scale (XXL) diptych painting. This work is currently *unavailable for sale* it is with Beam Gallery on consignment for 3 months, until March 2025. Due to the size, the painting will be shipped in a bespoke wooden crate, one extra week to be ordered and constructed. Painted with high quality Mike Harding artist oil paints on Linen. Created 2010 during Artist in Residency at DH Lawrence Pavilion, Nottingham and exhibited in Continuum in Symmetry solo. Extract of the exhibition AN review by Ruth Solomons writer, researcher and artist based in London. “Marek’s paintings are based on a particular sort of line that derives from drawing both in concept and through attention to placement upon surface: painted lines which relate directly to a mode of thinking that is particular to drawing, of gesture then decision then gesture, both disjointed and continuous. With their fixed width and deliberated routings, Marek’s carefully painted lines denote the use of a tool – in actuality a paintbrush. Yet they draw allusion to a physical sculpting from a machine-like tool which would produce such a uniform line. … Continuum in Symmetry is a painting show that fits very securely into the realm of painterly painting, and showcases Marek’s work as studio-based investigation into painting process: an artist’s artist. Yet there is a generosity evident that resists definition as pure painting in a Greenbergian sense: a playfulness in the repetition of an ambiguous network motif that signposts distinct colours and distinct layers into an open field of visually enjoyable painted surface. Even the thinnest most tenuous faint lines stretch across the full picture plane, and so play an equal role; in analogy Marek’s quiet paintings are indicative of a prevalent tendency towards honesty and beauty in painting now, away from showmanship, trickery and illusion. Full Review on Interface a-n 24 June 2010