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Paintings made at Leeds University with Paul Gopal Chowdhury
using methods traceable from Euan
Uglow, to Coldstream, Sickert and back to nineteenth century
French art. This tradition emphasizes "determined visual
relations": careful colour comparisons, setting keys, measuring
relative to fixed points and connecting areas of colour to make
surfaces...
The approach often produces this faceted, luminous look. It may
look artificial, but it is a learning process that helps the
student to construct visual worlds out of perception. The reward is a grasp of visual reality. It also
becomes easier to understand how what you see is
connected to how you work.
What a student does with this constructive visual connection to
the world is another matter. For my part, I was struck by a
sense of permanent discovery, and by the confidence that clear
methods gave me to paint and see many different things.
All paintings in private collections except
top right, which is for sale.
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