This abstract painting features a harmonious blend of colors, including earthy greens, vibrant yellows, and muted greys. The composition is dynamic, with loose, expressive brushstrokes creating a sense of movement and depth. While there are no recognizable elements, the canvas suggests a landscape or natural scenery, with organic forms and a sense of atmosphere. The artist's style is characterized by a spontaneous, gestural approach, which emphasizes the materiality of the paint and the process of its application. The overall impression is one of a contemplative, meditative mood, inviting the viewer to engage with the artwork's emotive and evocative qualities. ...
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. ...
