This abstract painting features a vibrant color palette of greens, yellows, and oranges, with expressive brushstrokes creating a dynamic, textured composition. The dominant shapes are organic, seemingly depicting a lush, overgrown natural setting, though the overall scene remains ambiguous and open to interpretation. The artist has employed a spontaneous, expressive painting technique, creating an atmospheric and captivating work that invites the viewer to engage with its abstract, evocative qualities. While the specific subject matter is unclear, the artwork conveys a sense of energy, growth, and the dynamism of the natural world. ...
Often working from sketches of his travels and everyday surroundings, Max Wade reduces these sketches to their critical forms and negative space and transforms them into paintings. In this way, Wade's drawings are enlarged, rotated, and distorted, and the motifs are simplified, allowing the works to depict a layered imaginary landscape where plains interchange and motifs darken to become ambiguous. The paintings become as if alive, with a sense of rhythm, physicality, and energy. ...
The gallery brings a range of vibrant artists working within different media to the fore – often showcasing them for the first time and offering emerging artists exposure to an international audience. To date, the gallery has hosted over 60 physical exhibitions, pop-up exhibitions, exhibitions in virtual reality and online. Sid Motion Gallery opened in 2016 in a former betting shop in Kings Cross. In 2019 the gallery relocated to a larger space in South East London. ...
