This one-man show runs from 24 November until 17 December 2010 at Waterhouse & Dodd, 26 Cork Street, London W1S 3ND.
The exhibition is showing five new figure paintings and four still lifes created over the last three years.
……the reality is sometimes only apparent. The old studio, itself a strong character in the work, distorts to suit a subject. Regular props, as the modern two- or three-tiered glass table, suddenly swoop and twist like one of Claude Flight’s London Underground trains. In Piano Pieces the instrument’s hammers are heaped on a card table like the offal of an autopsy with the Marigold glove flung aside by a pathologist, while an upturned castor appears to have made a failed bid for the door………all sorts of art historical resonances are there to be enjoyed as well as the stories, symbols and sheer technical mastery.
Huon Mallalieu
in the intoduction to the catalogue
……the reality is sometimes only apparent. The old studio, itself a strong character in the work, distorts to suit a subject. Regular props, as the modern two- or three-tiered glass table, suddenly swoop and twist like one of Claude Flight’s London Underground trains. In Piano Pieces the instrument’s hammers are heaped on a card table like the offal of an autopsy with the Marigold glove flung aside by a pathologist, while an upturned castor appears to have made a failed bid for the door………all sorts of art historical resonances are there to be enjoyed as well as the stories, symbols and sheer technical mastery.
Huon Mallalieu
in the intoduction to the catalogue
