The Bleak Rush Hour

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By Phil Davis
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Dimensions (HxWxD):

61 × 79 × 4 cm

Materials:

Acrylic paint on canvas textured paper. Using handmade stencil, splatter paint using inks. Palette knife painting application, and paint rollers for additional texture.

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2013
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During this period I was experimenting with a highly expressive style in my landscapes and cityscapes, using a rather limited palette of dark and sludgy colours to attempt to capture a strange beauty in impasto texture and spontaneous energy. I had a desire to communicate the main emotion and aura of the scene without refining the details towards perfection. I wanted to render an iconic London scene as a depiction of the gritty side of real life and avoid giving an idealised picture. The figures running to board a taxi are manic and dynamically applied as if mimicking their rapid motion, so their features disappear in the blur. The splashes, dirt and tarmac all mix together in the splattered energy across the canvas, as if the raw material of the setting gets used as the paint and medium to create the scene. For me it was an early transitional stage in breaking away from convention, and using texture and abstraction in ways which I had yet to realise and hone. In this piece, I've layered acrylics, oils, and ink with a technique rooted in expressionism and semi-abstract forms to capture a dusky portrayal of an iconic cityscape enveloped in a captivating, enigmatic aura. I sought to evoke the rush and relent of the busy life juxtaposed against the enduring grandeur of history, creating a provocative interplay of light and shadow that invites viewers into a reflective dialogue with the past and present. Let this artwork bring a blend of nostalgia and modernity, contemplation and vitality into your space.

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