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United Kingdom
Painting, Oil on Canvas
Size: 15.7 W x 19.7 H x 0.8 D in
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I painted this work in exceptionally thick impasto, on an already heavily worked canvas. I find that working on a textured ground lends a wonderful atmosphere to the new painting. In this work, an old friend is absorbed into her reading, and was unaware of my taking a photograph at that moment. This seems to have produced a very relaxed, yet focused atmosphere in the photo. When painting, my intention is not to produce a typical likeness (although that does sometimes happen), but instead to create a sense of intensity and physical presence. The colours are my usual limited palette, which I always seem to return to, but which I find create exactly the depth of feeling and gravity I try to create in my work.
Painting:Oil on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:15.7 W x 19.7 H x 0.8 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
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Ships From:United Kingdom.
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United Kingdom
Hi, welcome to my page! I hope you enjoy browsing my work. My paintings are exactly what they appear to be. There’s no symbolism or nuance and it’s not necessary to interpret. They’re raw, direct experiences of people and things, and they’re painted in a raw, direct way. So in that sense, they are what they are. I complete each work in one session. If they’re not finished within that time, the moment is irretrievably lost and the painting is scraped or abandoned. It doesn’t work any other way. New paintings are then painted over old. Why I should need to work this way is rooted in a kind of shock of realising ‘what is’. I have always been a little shocked by the immediacy of ordinary experience, and throughout my development as a painter, I’ve worked to represent that as accurately as possible. This explains the ordinariness of my subject matter, and the narrow range of people and subjects I choose. I paint the people I know (not many), and I paint the things around me. So, no grand themes of life. Instead, I paint the intimacy of familiarity, but seen anew, such as in those moments of clarity when the ordinary and familiar seems strange and unfamiliar. I believe those moments are gifts of true awareness. To see what’s really there, even if it’s been seen a thousand times before. There’s something almost miraculous about that. Perhaps that’s my true intention. My paintings may sometimes remind others that it’s possible to see the miraculous in ordinary things. If you have any questions or comments regarding my work, I'll be very happy to hear from you.
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