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In Focus: Bacchus after Rubens

A few years ago I began a series of studies after old master paintings of the mythological figure Bacchus. This character has recurred in my work throughout my career, most recently appearing in a number of works produced during my MA fine art studies at Grays School of Art.

Bacchus after Rubens, oil and collage on canvas , 21 x 15cm

The painting above was made around 2017 and produced using oil paint and collage on canvas. The aim being to capture the structure of Ruben’s original composition in broad strokes, concentrating on colour and over all form rather than details.

It is currently available on eBay, where bidding starts at half the price listed on my website. You can visit the listing at the link below:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/393639505138

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eBay uploads

I’m experimenting with eBay as a sales platform and have uploaded these three additions to the site to eBay, where the starting price is 50% off, at £15. As these are my first listings, I am also offering free postage (in the UK).

Press the link below to visit the eBay listings!

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/393639461781

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https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/393639486012

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New Additions: After Patrick Heron

I read Jerry Saltz’s article on Jasper Johns which ignited an interest in what Johns is currently doing, leading me to The Works on Paper exhibition currently on the Matthew Arks Gallery website, and a return to looking at my Johns books, with particular interest in the formal aspects of image construction and interplay of colour and object, which activated a link in my mind to a in many ways dissimilar artist in Patrick Heron. I always preferred the more “draughtsmanly(?)” Heron works, but enjoyed the visual vibration of the point where his juxtaposed colours meet. So I wanted to learn a bit about how to build high chromatic interesting fields by making drawings after and inspired by Heron’s 60s/70s era. Learning by drawing. Call me “Matt-Rick Heron”.

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New Additions

3 Small drawings on card added today. Featured in the group of drawings titled “Age of Anxiety” on http://www.aportablegallery.wordpress.com

  • Cleithrophobia
  • Miasma
  • Stress thoughts
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New additions: Elvis Impersonator Blackpool Pier

Three studies for a painting inspired by the Manic Street Preachers song “Elvis Impersonator Blackpool Pier”.

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In Focus: A Mother Suffers With Her Son no.1

One of a 3 part series combining elements from art historical images of Christ and the Virgin Mary in montages with other layered found elements such as flowers and drapery.

Oil on canvas, 23 x 30.5cm, £100
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In Focus: You Can’t take it with you

Around 2009 I began experimenting with Photoshop as a means to develop a more experimental approach to composition and colouring, that was not so much reliant on the strictures of reality. The digital montages I produced often served as a model for painting. My aim was not to replicate a smooth photographic surface, but to treat the montage as any other 3D subject to work from.

  • You can’t take it with you (blue)
  • You can’t take it with you (green)

My thematic approach to building these images was based on the still life tradition, particularly memento mori. The two paintings in focus here were based on combining found images of skulls with my own photographs of coins, illustrating the anti-hoarder maxim of “you can’t take your money with you when you die”.

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Paintings added

The following paintings have been added to the gallery of available artwork. These paintings were produced during a period where I would combine found images to suggest new meanings and narratives, replicating elements of digital image manipulation by hand such as layering and transparency.

Email matthewgwells@outlook.com with any enquiries.

  • Debord, oil on canvas, 30 x 30cm
  • Melancholy, oil on canvas, 30 x 30cm
  • Fertility and decay, oil on canvas, 30 x 30cm