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JOHN BADCOCK Paint or Portrait
JOHN BADCOCK Paint or Portrait
3rd - 30 September
2013
Opening preview: Tuesday 3rd September
5.30pm
Artist
Statement:
My experience with oil paint as a medium
to produce the portrait began with an emphasis on drawing to
achieve likeness, and in using oils to model that likeness
in colour. This exhibition however challenges that process
of mainly predetermined outcomes driven by drawing, and
places the focus on the media of oil paint. When looking at
my work it is easy to dismiss it for its apparent lack of
drawing but within the cyclic process of constructing and
deconstructing an image, drawing is always present, imbedded
in and on the gestural applications of oil. Drawing has to
somehow co-exist within the gesture, and within the paint,
challenging our perception of what a portrait should look
like.
These are mainly self-portraits. As a painter I have a great love of oils as a medium. It is a sensual and provocative medium, offering its fragrance, its gooeyness, it freshness and its immediacy to me as an artist. These works put me in my world of paint and remind me of the sensory experience involved in painting them.
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