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This exhibition contains a selection of Glenn’s
figure paintings and portraits, together with a suite of
interiors
and landscapes
from Salisbury Plain, North Yorkshire and West Wales.
For more than twenty years, the focus of Glenn’s art
has been the human figure, painted in a representational
idiom, based on careful observation.
On a formal level the works comprise a synthesis of colour
and line to describe volume and structure; the technical
skill employed presents a counterpoint to contemporary celebrity-driven
culture of the perfect body by depicting ordinary people
with their myriad physical idiosyncrasies. The isolated figure;
vulnerable and self-absorbed, is often observed as a foreshortened
scape in which peculiar details have been carefully depicted;
the asymmetry of a pair of ears, the angle one toe makes
with its neighbour, the pull of flesh between finger and
thumb, the sideways fall of a breast under its own particular
weight.
Only certain areas are meticulously painted; they
comprise a juxtaposition of thick impasto with thin glazing;
careful multi-layering alongside cursory thin layers; broken
colour techniques beside flat areas to give the painting
a greater surface interest at close-quarters.
The exhibition is open 10am-5pm daily. |
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