December 2018  -February 2019

18 PAINTINGS ACROSS 15 PRIOR DIGITAL SERIES

This is obviously a second selection made across fifteen preceding series (2015-18) in which painted versions extend issues of form and style.  The aim is not of course a slavish duplication in paint of the Photoshop file and for that matter, nor is the Photoshop file merely a photograph. Rather, painting here provides a further, challenging level of stylisation, through interpreting unfamiliar digital graphics effects to photographic sources. Painting deliberately simplifies these, but at the same time condenses form and content, enriching the work.

Even to paint from a straightforward photo-collage offers a range of technical options to distinguish between edges of pictures and edges within pictures, and with that, new considerations of content. With further digital graphics at play, these options are only multiplied and reflect more emphatically upon a painterly vocabulary, to what brush-formed elements may stand for, to how brushwork works as form or content.

As Read (2018) 107 X 92 cm acrylic/canvas – an extension of ACTIVISTS

Eskate (2018) 107 X 92 cm acrylic/canvas – an extension of LOVED ONES

Hawker Herberts – Coasting (2018) 107 X 92 cm acrylic/canvas – an extension of CAMOUFLAGE

Cyber Cipher (2018) 107 X 92 cm acrylic/canvas – an extension of MASQUERADE (A)

Reinforcement (2019) 84 X 71 cm acrylic/canvas – an extension of ROBO

Natural Selection (2019) 84 X 71 cm acrylic/canvas – an extension of ENDANGERED SPECIES

Trip The Light (2019) 84 X 71 cm acrylic/canvas – an extension of YOUR TURN

Winter Sun (2019) 84 X 71 cm acrylic/canvas – an extension of GARDEN PATH

Everybody Wants To Rule A World (2019) 51 X 40 cm acrylic/canvas an extension of LOVED ONES

Military/Industrial Truck (2019) 71 X 50 cm acrylic/canvas – an extension of TRUCULENCE

Saga (2019) 71 X 50 cm acrylic/canvas – an extension of MASQUERADE (A)

Daft Wader (2019) 71 X 50 cm acrylic/canvas – an extension of ENDANGERED SPECIES

War Zone (2019) 71 X 50 cm acrylic/canvas – an extension of ROBO

Artificial Flowers (2019) 71 X 50 cm acrylic/canvas – an extension of SAYING FLOWERS

Suburban Hydrant (2019) 71 X 50 cm acrylic/canvas – an extension of GARDEN PATH

Moonlight Tryst (2019) 71 X 50 cm acrylic/canvas – extension of TRUCULENCE

Adaptation (2019) 71 X 50 cm acrylic/canvas – an extension of TRAPPINGS

The Green Room (2019) 71 X 50 cm acrylic/canvas – an extension of YOUR TURN

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