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Franks wild years Painting

Lee Ellis

United Kingdom

Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

Size: 39.4 W x 39.4 H x 1.6 D in

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ABOUT THE ARTWORK

Inspired by the music of my favourite musician - Tom Waits. I’ve taken a combination of lyrics, song titles, album titles and the way his music makes me feel to create a series of paintings. Each piece has the signature device of cigarette smoke circulating throughout the painting - listen to his voice and it all makes sense. Partners, texture, colour all play a huge part in the series, creating depth and a sense of storytelling found within his music. This is no doubt a theme that I will cover again and again. **Due to an exclusivity agreement with a major UK gallery, I can only sell to collectors outside of the UK**

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Painting:

Acrylic on Canvas

Original:

One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:

39.4 W x 39.4 H x 1.6 D in

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Lee Ellis

Lee Ellis

United Kingdom

**Due to an exclusivity agreement with a major UK gallery, I can only sell internationally.** Lee Ellis is a British multi-media artist based in Bristol. His insatiable desire to create leads him to embrace different artistic mediums, from printmaking to drawing and painting and his bold and expressive style is characterised by the unusual juxtaposition of bright colours and dark subjects. Ellis’s paintings typically convey a visceral and deep-seated angst within his figures, and his raw, expressive brushstrokes make his style poignant and immediately affecting. In his most recent work however the depth of emotion is tempered by wit and originality. His ‘Imposter’ collection made a huge impact, and he has followed this with a host of creative new styles and ideas inspired by royalty, superheroes, iconic design and more, all delivered in his compelling contemporary voice. “I like to use the human face as my subject, but in a way it acts as a vessel for my experimentation”, he says. “The person I’m painting typically becomes irrelevant as I use their features to hold the paint and the work evolves with every layer of colour.” Painting in a mixture of oils, spray paints and charcoals Ellis is a natural experimenter, fascinated by the effects and versatility of different mediums and the opportunities they offer for uniqueness. He is constantly pushing boundaries and exploring the possibilities of new tools, looking for different ways of moving the paint around the canvas and bringing energy and originality to the process of creation. Ellis was first drawn to art as a teenager when he saw Wine-Crucifix by Arnulf Rainer at Tate Modern. This extraordinary work, originally created for the Student Chapel of the Catholic University in Graz, Austria, was hung across a window, and the shape of a cross was revealed beneath the many layers of deep red paint only when the light shone through the canvas. The painting is a powerful work at any time, but its living shifting symbolism in response to the light spoke directly to his imagination, as did the work he saw that day by Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud; these three artists have had a significant and visible influence on his work ever since. Ellis graduated from the University of the West of England, where he studied Graphic Design, but soon found his artistic expression was evolving into a love of abstract painting.

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