Charles Gomila

ARTISTIC STATEMENT !!!Post-Minimalist plus!!!
I'm an emerging painter currently working in the abstract genre.
My aim is to bring the clarity and logic found in classical and contemporary musical compositions to painting.

**Since 2018 I have been working in paintings that go beyond the strict absolute maxims of minimalism. I call this style post-minimalism. They follow many of the objectives of Donald Judd’s minimalism: they minimise the illusion of depth and other forms of illusionism (e.g. texture, brushwork). The key difference between my post-minimalists and minimalist works is that the former refer to objects in the real world (e.g. D-Day beaches) or the world of literature (the Ancient Greek poems: The Iliad and The Odyssey; the Ancient Roman poem: The Aeneid) or the world of music/opera (For Dmitri Shostakovich; Sadko) or the world of history (Ovid in exile; Shakespeare’s history plays).

**In 2018, I painted a five-panel polyptych in oils based on The Iliad, The Aeneid and The Odyssey. These are post-minimalist and extremely reductionist.

**From 2015 to 2017 I produced abstract paintings, two works based on poems by Lorca and an installation (Coit Tower, San ...

*Studied Painting & Drawing with the distinguished artist Denzil Forrester.
*Studied Printmaking with the distinguished printmaker Frank Connelly.
*Studied Ceramics with the distinguished potter Annette Welch.
*MSc in Computer Science, Liverpool University
*BSc (Hons) in Physics with Geophysics, Liverpool University

Selected Group Exhibitions
Denzil Forrester and his students, Morley College, London (2016)
The Centre for Strategy & Communication, London (2011, 2010)
Llewellyn Alexander Gallery, London (2002)
Morley College Gallery, London (2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004 etc)
Gibraltar International Art Exhibition, Gibraltar (2009)

Westminster Central Hall, London (1998)
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