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'Untitled' [Startled #25] Painting

Mike Edwards

United Kingdom

Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

Size: 27.6 W x 27.6 H x 1.6 D in

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ABOUT THE ARTWORK

From a new collection of artworks loosely titled ‘Damage In Pursuit of Happiness’. Acrylic on canvas. Size: 70cm x 70cm. A tribalesque double faux-neon skull with airbrushed shadows painted to create the illusion it's attached to the front of the canvas. The background geometric shape gives a dynamic energy to the painting, whilst the twilight intense blue glow of a suggested horizon at the base, creates a sense of depth and space. The shape continues around the sides of the canvas, making the artwork a complete object ready to hang. Signed on the reverse.

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Painting:

Acrylic on Canvas

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One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:

27.6 W x 27.6 H x 1.6 D in

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Mike Edwards is an established artist well known for his portraits made of text. New bodies of work show Edwards evolving from his recognised style, developing an increasingly sophisticated approach to painting. Some works retain a typographic aesthetic, whilst others incorporate painted neon, abstract expressionism and traditional landscape painting to produce a complex and energetic dialogue between the old and the new. Edwards has exhibited extensively, including three solo shows, and his work is in collections around the world, including those of Sir Bradley Wiggins, Imelda May, and the late publisher Felix Dennis. David Bowie signed Edwards’ unique typographic portrait of Aladdin Sane - which went on to raise phenomenal funds for charity at auction. His portrait of Lord Attenborough is on permanent display at The Attenborough Centre for Creative Arts, University of Sussex. Edwards' work was also included in Gilles Peterson's book 'Broadcasting in a Pandemic', a cultural documentation of a year in lockdown. An exceptional painter, Edwards started out as a professional artisan artist before developing his own body of work. Projects have included a stage set for rock band Blur and producing commissioned artworks for Bacardi, Budweiser and Urban Outfitters. Edwards continues to push boundaries in new paintings currently in progress in his studio in central Brighton. ARTIST STATEMENT: As in nature, I’m looking for a fine balance in my paintings. My work is in a constant state of flux, and continues to evolve through a variety of styles and experiments. My paintings consider space, both pictorial and illusionary, light, both natural and man-made, and energy, both painterly and contained. I feel that paintings, with their physicality and their physical presence are the closest thing humans have made to a natural element that can communicate the intangible or the metaphysical. That an emotional or cerebral reaction in the viewer can be caused by simply looking at a painting is extraordinary, and is key to why I choose this medium. I’m fascinated how a painting can retain the energy of its creation and transmit it back to the viewer, whether it’s by expressive marks or brushstrokes or whether it's in controlled geometric shapes. I’m a fan of optical magic, from the earliest examples of tromp l’oeil in Greek murals, through to contemporary street art.

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