My formal artistic background is sparse. I dropped art at in order to study the sciences and am now doing a PhD in Biochemistry at Cambridge. The instinct to paint never really left though and I've increasingly used art to reflect the way that science has helped me see more in things than is there at first sight.
Objects are infused with far greater meaning then just the way they look and I hope to be able to capture a tiny amount of that in the way I paint. I like to explore the aesthetics that come as an inevitability of the way human brains have evolved and it is with that scaffold that I mould what I see into what I put on paper.
I've been heavily influenced by constructivism and cubism (Gabo and Picasso in particular) in my more abstract paintings with a particular focus on the architectural. Despite the beauty of the buildings, oriental design had relatively little impact on the cubist movement.
I took an interest in pagodas as subject matter when I spent some time in Japan for a Karate competition and have more recently back-translated that style to western buildings, particularly those that surround me in my life in Cambridge. I've also recently taken to life drawing for the challenge of pulling my work towards more organic forms and the unique aesthetics that the human body can give.
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Size: 9.60" x 3.70"
Price: £25.00
