Arthur Lanyon (25 years old. Born in United Kingdom. Lives in: Cardiff) Cardiff school of art and design
The painting is interested in transitional meaning between figurative and abstract elements. Figure/ground relationships hang like transient cloaks only to be independently or collectively destroyed, painted over for a second go at the equation.
An important aspect of the work is timing and balance, a gestural moment of contact and a salient application of paint.
Metaphorically I could describe the act of painting like build ...[more]
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Work of art I would like to make
The work would be a suit or a single painting based around a 'layer cake'. An injection of various imagery therefore an undetermined narrative would be resolved using a method of re-working metamorphosis, accident, risk, painting over, intentions of what could be a process of pastiche or excavation and rebuild. Timing and time act to reinforce a severity in what could and couldn't be ('the world in 25 years' time').