Monday 17 June 2013

Peter Doig



Doig
Doig had spent his childhood in Canada then moved to London studying art as a degree. Much of his paintings have a surreal atmosphere coupled with unusual colour palette often vibrant, striking and juxtaposed in odd combinations. His work explore human connection to locations including urban and rural terrain with the usual subjects are reflections of snowbound Canada, modernist cityscapes and buildings and watery surfaces dramatically reflecting its vaguely contrived viewer.

His works excels in producing palpable feelings of solitude and emptiness, sometimes a human presence is only viewed and a shadow composed of a loose fluid appearance drifting across bright vibrant landscapes. This is the aspect that I am most attracted to as human presence is going to be a major part of the work and the expressive quality is appropriate for an apocalyptic landscape.

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