Jock McFadyen

Jock McFadyen

McFadyen has taken inspiration from realist – sometimes even minimalist style – and often composed with an abstract painterly style that depicts the London backdrop often with an ethereal almost expressionist atmosphere. These works are often empty streets and subject to graffiti, deteriorating posters and crumbling brickwork taking influence from the German and American realist films of the 1970s.

This painterly style is a very intriguing mode of expression and I’m interested in the composition of urban decay. I’m particularly fond of how the artist features the cityscape stretching across the earth disappearing beyond the horizon and leaving the upper levels of the painting with the background sky this gives the scene a sort of romanticist appearance that widens the range of the piece and appropriate for an apocalyptic-landscape.