Looking Glass
2020, Oil Paint on Canvas, 100 x 150 cm
Visually encapsulating notions of loneliness, serenity and sorrow in a single canvas through that of a transient medium.
A Study of Transience
‘People has always strived to visually depict feelings and emotions that don't have a physical entity. Love depicted as a heart. Hate depicted as a frowned face. Serenity depicted a calm lake. Joy depicted as a smile. Sorrow depicted as tears. The list goes on.
All the symbols we use are really just what we do to try to understand and comprehend a concept which really, is more abstract than can be encapsulated in a visual form.
We as humans require ‘mediums’ to transfer or show these invisible entities or ‘feelings’, in the same way that we only see the air in the form of its effect on other objects.
So, if sentiment were shown through the transfer of something, it could perhaps indicate what was intended in the first place.
The seemingly passive interaction of the human form with a transparent medium like water could hopefully for some people, visually depict something they couldn’t really see.’
Currently on Exhibition at Shrewsbury International (Riverside)
This artwork is currently held in the artist’s private collection