Year: 2012, oil on canvas
As of yet, composed of three paintings with more to follow. The concept stems from travel as the vehicle for exploration, I then further the experience by imposing and exploring an imaginary context.
(Above: Lower left)
Travelling with my sketching materials in left bank Parisian cafes, is a romantic notion in some ways, communing with the great artists and writers of times past. In Les Deux Margots on the Boulevard St Germain back in 2008, I noticed the lady at the table in front being gazed at by passing people. I realised it was Charlotte Rampling, this is a little colour to add to the 2010 painting Threshold III, as I painted her into this unlikely position with the bustling tourists in the Louvre.
(Above: Lower right)
I greatly admire the work of photographer Martin Parr and I was delighted to find the cover of his 2019 edition of ‘Small World’ contains a photograph similar to my painting. In my painting I use a secondary image of the Mona Lisa on a camera screen, partly as it interests me how technology gives us another storage source for our experiences. I find Parrs work demonstrates technology capture further, to the point where the Mona Lisa becomes distant and out of focus.
‘St Andre allegory (Paris 1946)’, 2012 oil on canvas, 720 mm x 450 mm
A vignette composition features a left bank Paris interior which remained untouched from 1939 – 46.The view through the window is a tiny cropped view from this warren of tightly knitted Parisienne streets.
‘Attacco di panico’, 2012 oil on canvas, 1300 mm x 280 mm
Note the heightened colour saturation across the heart level on the marble torso and area of blue sky within this band pierced by a jet trail
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