About
Painting is slow enough to catch a person off duty.
Statement
I paint faces, mostly. Some of them hold together and some of them do not.
The work runs in two directions at once. On one side there is slow painting, worked thin and layered, where the figure stays whole and the light does the talking. On the other side the paint goes on fast with a knife, and the face splits, drips, or gets interrupted by something with no business being there. A goldfish. A second pair of eyes.
What I am after sits between those two. It is the moment a person stops performing composure and has not yet decided what to do instead. Painting is slow enough to catch it and stubborn enough to keep it once it is down.
- Lives and works
- Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Media
- Oil, acrylic and ink on canvas and paper
- Represented by
- Available directly from the studio
How the work is shown here
Nothing on this site has been cropped to fit a layout. Every painting keeps its own proportions, whichever way round it is, and the pages arrange themselves around the work rather than the other way about.
Each painting also has a page of its own, where the image appears whole, alongside a room view. A canvas is a physical thing and it reads differently once there is a ceiling above it, so the room views are there for scale. Some are photographs and some are mock-ups, and each page says which.
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