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Painting, Gouache on Paper
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sunbathing by El Mirador pool in Palm Springs Painting the high life and other scenes of more accessible pleasure: A slight variant on Slim Aarons quote: painting attractive people doing attractive things in attractive places almost sums it up. My painting is based on various sources, from vintage postcards, holiday photos, to film stills or a personal bank of images. I have a particular interest in beach, pool and summer references. I like this subject-matter as it seems to allow me to deal with painting on many levels. I can play with an impressionist type colour palette, I can paint the figure. In Composition, some beach/pool scenes are not unlike some Venetian and Baroque paintings, Titian, Veronese..and so it has this historical dimension. I am also drawn to depictions of leisure as beach or pool is a place where people are partly naked yet unaware and in a 'natural' setting so in some way this subjectmatter is timeless. I am drawn on the otherhand to a nostalgic pleasure and it is difficult for me to seperate the two, nostalgia from the depiction of pleasure if not impossible. This intersection is what I find interesting.
2016
Gouache on Paper
One-of-a-kind Artwork
6 W x 4 H x 0.1 D in
Not Framed
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I paint in a style for a period of a four to six weeks or so untill I get bored and pick up another style, I tend alternate between tighter realist styles and looser more abstract styles, subject matter changes but there are definite reocurring themes. Beaches, pools, bathers, scenes from classic films, history... forming a backdrop to my own meditation on the subject. Within that space I focus on expressions of social dynamics. In this sense I feel I am more of a traditionalist as I attempt to relate back to painting history and pull away from the other media -film and photo- which ironically inform and are sometimes the starting point of my work. On a formal level I am currently focused on extending and strengthening my colour palette, for example in many of the scenes I will incorporate primary and complementary colour dynamics - cool versus warm– to create spatial tension the way Richard Diebenkorn was able to so successfully; a large ocean/pool blue or tree green punctuated by a small area of skin tone or a bright red or yellow umbrella or swimming suit. I find in much of my painting I cannot easily separate nostalgia for a bygone era, the sensual from more specific contemporary iconography of human interaction. I think this makes the subject-matter multi-layered and keeps me interested in making work. Hopefully it makes it more interesting to the viewer as well.
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