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Paintings that move between two poles: reality and imagination. Challenges the bedrock of a passive/aggressive society. The spiritual in colour vs the manufactured; popular vs historic. treading a fragile path where the artist can become what he fights against. leaving words to continue on where art has become street signs.
Appropriation and imagination work side by side. the spiritual is a hitching post that keeps them relevant. the system manifests itself in its preferred art. the rivers of normality vs the machines beneath.
Stepney Green Park paintings.
A series of oil on canvas paintings, painted in the 1990's, each one measuring about 3'6" x 4'2".
Stepney Green Park is a long sinuous park in Stepney, Tower Hamlets, with a pathway through the middle. I was interested in how the park had a beginning and an end. A series; a expressive narrative. There are four segments of the park as you can see in the map that have different aspects.
The first landscape in the series represented spring. I thought about the gates from one segment to the other as stages in a journey, I also noted the two tall trees like temple columns on either side.
The second, landscape painting, also of spring, I did with a small brush to capture the detail of the leaves but I could not help but find odd little shapes that reminded me of new things being born.
The third ,goes back to the gate with the trees like two columns with the sunlight from the side and entering into summer now.
The fourth has a lone figure sitting on the grass contemplating something, again with the pathway passing through the gates and receding into the background.
The fifth, with the grass singed brown by the of the sun, and the sixth with the autumn leaves along the path.
The last painting, in the series felt ominous because it represented an ending with the long shadows falling across the path.