The End, Reflected in a Golden Eye Painting

Hedley Roberts uses paint and digital media to interrogate the complexity of romantic love and the "˜betweeness' of relationships. Oversized watercolour portraits of flirtatious, angry, sad, confused, and unspecified individuals confront us as audience. Images of passionate kisses form psychodramatic landscapes of characters locked in moments of unbridled lust, caring embrace, or dramatic end. Digital media is used to create moving paintings that meld and conjoin figures to produce troubled, interrupted forms. Paint is handled as an expressive, performative medium that aims to capture moments of the artist's inner dialogue and emotional state. Each image is a moment that presages the possibility of tragedy and the end of the endless embrace. These paintings are lovesongs for the broken hearted adolescent in us all.
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