untitled 4 Painting

Part of a larger ongoing series of work capturing small, unnoticed scenes from around the area where I live, Frome. The scenes themselves are an eclectic mix of subjects that capture my eye and are generally not thought of as something you would see in a painting, ranging from close ups of graffiti to chain link fence to rusted gate hinges. The unusual subjects I find visual intriguing, quite often it's a combination of textures, colour and composition that draws me in. I like to think of them as visual poetry of something uncanny, these areas that exist and you may very walk past them, but never stop to look, places that combine nature with some kind of human abandonment or neglect. The painting comes float mounted in a small hand finished frame measuring 18x23cm with anti-reflective UV glass, it has been painted on paper prepared with an oil based ground and varnished on both sides to protect the work from moisture in the air.