Ann Thornycroft

Winter Light

2019

The paintings in this "Cutout Series" are highly patterned hand painted pieces involving small, fast, intuitive sketches that are scaled up and “cut out” of the existing pattern.

In James' paintings, he explores how uncertainty can lead to meaning and understanding. How harmony can be experienced even within tension and chaos and how the recognizable can rise out of purely abstract form. In his abstract paintings he responds to these phenomena by creating contemporary icons – works meant to encourage contemplation and meditation. James' more recent works have evolved from the romantic representational ideal into the symbolic, abstract archetype. He comes from a classical background inspired by the great romantic landscape painters such as Turner, Lorrain, Friedrich and Moran, his recent work is more influenced by the work of artists like Klee, Miro, Rothko, Pollock, Riley and Richter. James creates complex abstractions layered in familiarity and veiled in mysteriousness. The unorthodox methods he uses to apply and move oil paint allow him to create compositions that are formally beautiful – infused with tension and drama but also expressive of the spiritual, symbolic, mysterious and eternal. James' work counters...

This acrylic on canvas painting is about light, shadows and refractions. Evan's explores sunlight through vapors with this painting. A master of texture and mediums, Evans effortless...

The painting "Prine" is apart of a series of work featured at an exhibition titled "Inside the Prism" where Evan's explores fractured light. A master of texture and mediums, Evans ef...