VIEW IN MY ROOM
United Kingdom
Collage, Oil on Wood
Size: 28 W x 24 H x 0.5 D in
The characters are based on the children of the house of Savoy, at a period where many ended up fleeing the French revolution (two of them were Marie Antoinette's sisters-in-law), and others were sent out into Europe to make 'good matches' - which basically makes them either refugees or economic migrants. Over the period of the French Revolution it is estimated that around 130,000 people were officially acknowledged by the Revolutionary government to have emigrated by 1800, whilst the inclusion of all the unlisted fugitives probably puts the figure somewhere nearer 150,000. Of this number, the available evidence points to a figure of around 12,500 émigrés residing in the British Isles at one point or another. A large number were clergy or army, but roughly 25% were titled. It seems there are questions to be asked – at the beginning of 2016 it was estimated around 6000 people were in the Calais camps in appalling conditions trying to get into Britain. I question what Britain would do if 25% of them were aristocracy? I question what makes a migrant rather than a refugee? These paintings are a way of approaching these questions… I have placed my characters are in baron landscapes with a strange air of detachment about the situation just around the corner - or through the woods - the animals depicted are hunted, and mostly either endangered or extinct. The butterflies and moths are completely out of place and of course will not survive. My usual motifs of carpets and maps are there, but where in previous work they have represented opulence and a sense of place, position and ownership, these are now being obscured, snowed over, eroded.
Collage:Oil on Wood
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:28 W x 24 H x 0.5 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:No
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I began producing elaborate mixed media pieces while on my long stay in Venice, making use of the city-floor ephemera of discarded museum leaflets and postcards. Incorporating ‘scraps’ of the past, sourced from secondhand books and magazines, and the maps I grew up with as the child of an intrepid Geophysicist, I produced a diary of sorts, the alternative reality of a history I invented for myself. I have since developed this way of working, often inspired by current events, creating ‘intricate scenes of social malfunction’, my investigations into ‘the human condition’ through a series of imagined portraits. I studied Fine Art at Oxford Brookes University, spending my final year at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago on an extended travel award. Graduating in 1992 I moved back to London, where for a time I slipped into the world of graphic design and illustration, working for Raymond Loewy International, and subsequently becoming Course Tutor at Lambeth College, and later a lecturer at Worcester University. By the late 1990s, emboldened to pursue my painting career by formidable gallery owner and art advocate the late Elizabeth Organ, a series of events shaped my subsequent work, beginning with the move from London to unfeasibly feudal Herefordshire, a turbulent marriage in a ‘Gormenghast’ of a castle, and a subsequent period of exile in Venice. My work has most recently been shown at the Royal West of England Academy, Bristol and the Mernier Gallery, London, with an increasing following of private European collectors from Southern France to Croatia. Represented by: The Martin Tinney Gallery Cardiff http://www.artwales.com/ Gala Fine Art, Bristol http://galafineart.uk
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