The exhibition Attic Goes Boom was a solo show of 10 recent paintings. I gave a public talk about the recent work, in the gallery on the 3rd April.
The studio, or workshop, has been a consistent motif of my paintings for the last two decades, the recent work is based on complex studio installations and digital projections. They are usually painted directly in front of the subject and the specifics of composition, the description of space and particularities of light and colour are important concerns.
The work is in some ways anti-photographic, while accepting that our vision has perhaps already been colonised by the ubiquity of the mechanical image. It attempts to investigate human sight and representation in its full complexity; in terms of peripheral vision, binocular vision, spatial depth, imagination, painterly facture, colour and tone relationships and psychological states of mind. The new paintings do make use of the photographic digital image, but the image as projected light, rather than printed on paper. Some of the newer pictures have a panoramic format and make reference to cinema, both in terms of spectacle and in the way the image emerges from the dark.