Trick of the Light Painting

This piece was created during what will be the worlds historical year of 2020. A time in which I was furloughed (a covid crisis payment scheme in the UK) from my work back stage in theatre, allowing even more time to explore a new body of work in the art studio, pending and exhibition of 2020 pieces next spring in Camden. My works can vary in figuration, but I aways use the human form, albeit sometimes reconstructed in my way. I like to make work that keeps a viewer looking and I direct and edit the colour, paint, compositions in order to give fluidity, rythm, contrast and movement. Like a performance. Like moving shadows. Things appearing from a deep sea. I work with the paint to achieve this honestly, often music is with me in the studiospace. I suppose I am subconsciously influenced by a miraid of human experience. Theatre. Film. Music. Fashion. And a lifetime of both difficult and fascinating human experiences. High contrasts. I work until the piece has an alive energy. This as many artists/painters will tell you is the gamble. Its a balance of letting the subconscious take over to achieve a kind of truth, but also have an element of practical control. I love this piece's vibrancy. It has been transformed from its original appearance at the beginning of the year throughout 2020. It has now been vanished and is a deep streched canvas unframed.