New paintings at 'Quiet Signs', the Asylum Gallery
l-r 'Lock-Up, 'Semi-detached Arrangement', '10.15 Saturday Night
I opened my
exhibition, ‘Quiet Signs’ at Wolverhampton’s Asylum Gallery last Friday night
to a packed out and enthusiastic audience. It was a great night where I met
some wonderful people encountering my work for the first time, and so many
seemed to connect with the images in the paintings of nocturnal streets, and
seeing how they reflected the contemporary English urban landscape. It was
really heartening. After exhibiting many of these paintings in two large
exhibitions in 2018 to little response, I felt that they had finally hit their
mark in a way I was hoping for.
I had
hopefully thought that the small artist-run Asylum Gallery might be a suitable
venue for these paintings when I applied there, and was also aware that the gallery
has also worked extremely hard to build an arts scene around the venue with the
frequent exhibitions, events and opportunities they offer to local artists in
the area, that may attract a bigger audience to see my work, and I was right
for once.
'Not Coming Home Tonight'
I was also
pleased to show some new paintings, some new smaller ones, but also four large
canvasses that I have made in the last few weeks in a really busy and enjoyable
period of painting with a lot of renewed energy and purpose. I’ve been having a
great time in the studio, and I feel on
a creative roll at the moment and am really pleased with these new pieces which
re-assert an interest in more formal experiments. They are a lot more abstract
and spare, and much more colourful too, than recent work, and were received well, as well as these new books I have collaborated with my artist friend, Chris Cowdrill on.
Anyway, to finish
this post, I’ll share a lovely quote left in the comments book that summed
things up nicely… it's been great to exhibit in my native Black Country again
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