Fresco Inspired paintings 2023

 

 

 

 

 

 

"The Golden Slipper" Oil on Canvas, 60cm x 60cm	"Molly After Rubens" Oil on Canvas, 50cm x 50cm	"Fish Soup" Oil on Canvas, 50cm x 50cm
"Daylight Saving" Oil on Canvas, 50cm x 50cm	"On Buttered Bread" Oil on Canvas, 50cm x 50cm	"Motion Sickness" Oil on Canvas, 50cm x 50cm
"Make My Day" Oil on Canvas, 50cm x 50cm	"The Swish of a Wide Brimmed Hat" Oil on Canvas, 50cm x 50cm	"Pick and Mix" Oil on Canvas, 50cm x 50cm

 

Baroquerie

These works take European signifiers of status and authority as their subject matter; frescos, ceilings and Baroque/Rococo architectural spaces. This era is often portrayed as decadent and indulgent, but its exuberance and its opposition to strict Classical rules is enormously appealing. The works are intended to capture this dichotomy.

I use a range of painting techniques, employing characteristics of modernist painting (gestural mark making, grid structures, pictorial flatness, close-cropping and photographic blur/sharpness) that sets the Baroque subject matter in a contemporary context.