Ship of Fools #1

As a schoolboy I would often ask friends to draw a few random lines on a piece of paper. My challenge was then to turn their squiggles into recognisable faces. Similarly, with Ship of Fools, I projected dynamic shapes, taken from tracings of sportsmen in action, onto 5’ x 5’ canvases, and “found” among these shapes grotesque faces I would then integrate into an expressive design. As with Through the…Regency Window, the ultimate aim was to achieve a feeling of stasis via the plastic elements of painting.

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