Life After Noah's Ark - 12,000 BC #1, Oil on paper
About
The Painter
The only photograph he has agreed to release
He gives no birth year. Pressed on the question he has said only that he has been painting long enough for it to stop mattering, which is either an answer or a very practised way of avoiding one.
He never studied. What he knows he took directly from the canvases of others — from Picasso the permission to break a face and reassemble it honestly, from Jean Bastie the patience to leave a passage unfinished, from George Basilic the conviction that a painting should withhold something from the person looking at it.
“I am not interested in being understood. I am interested in being recognised, later, by someone who was not there.”
His subjects arrive from three directions at once. Ancient history, which he treats not as the past but as unfinished business. The present, which he paints rarely and without affection. And the future — the register he returns to most often, and the one he refuses to explain.
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- Undisclosed
- Training
- Self-taught
- Working since
- Unstated
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Eight works, each on its own ground
Every painting is hung on a colour chosen for it. Nothing is dated, because the painter declines to say when anything happened.
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