Book – art school
His uses oil paint on linen from a photo source. He’s been a
professional artist from 1990 and is still creating work today; he started as an
abstract painter – doing one colour paintings.
TV room V – life size, so the viewer feels like there
looking in a mirror.
Black and white photos – before computers
Lounge – 5ft x 5ft in the uni
Cambridge residence for 1 year
Did two mirror images of reality
Messing around in the dark room – taking away the brushwork,
just sits on the paper
Taxi office 1997 – layers/levels
Common/everywhere – normal
Places that you see everyday – it’s always there but you
don’t really see it.
Tate show – student accommodation – alienated
Viewing room – it’s a double meaning
Images from a moving car
Landscape – flatness, empty, huge, impossible to frame
Liked driving through it – like a road movie, had an auto
camera – drive in the evening, just from when the light was going
View from window
Light was different - 5.30am
Set it up – window view
Vanishing point – middle, walkway paintings
Removed the end – middle
Different paintings, walkways and trees – contrast
The more blurred the paintings – the bigger its effect
There is a person in the painting – the person viewing it
-Standing in front of it.
Big – part of the space
Window – separates the inside/ outside – light, perspective.
12 year series
The room itself was like a light box – the floor was
knocked, it had to be re-painted
Home office – curtains, anti bombs catches the glass of the
bomb outside.
Little Finland
Benday dots
The darker the image the nearer it is to you.
Uses a sugar lift in his prints this makes the brushstrokes totally visible, its crude a sticky mark making technique
Art school – studio spaces, we are familiar to them and
don’t notice them because we are always there
Panel – not stretched canvas
Paintings of almost nothing but very detailed
City moon
each painting takes 3-4 weeks, so he has about 8 on the go at once.
Inside psychology – symbolic to the outside world
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