'White Pears #26'
oil
on canvas/16″ x 20″/April 2016
Here’s the latest painting off the easel, ploughing the
familiar furrow and exploring that same Edmund de Waal-influenced compositional
device of most recent development of placing some of the objects before and
others behind a translucent screen (of
tracing paper), on this occasion weighting things three-two towards the
latter. A little more than has been the case recently, the brushwork on both
the ground and the ‘unfocussed’ pears is thicker/sketchier, more expressive of
the materiality of the medium (paint as paint), more closely approaching the
manner of the representation of those objects in front of the paper screen,
those hand-finished remodelled pears that are observed and experienced as being
palpably so.
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