This abstract painting features a vibrant mix of colors and textures, blending organic shapes and gestural brushstrokes. The composition is dynamic, with a dominant dark, shadowy form contrasted by pops of red and green. The artist employs a layered, collage-like approach, incorporating found materials and creating a sense of depth and complexity. The style is expressionistic, with a focus on spontaneous, emotive mark-making rather than realistic representation. This work likely reflects the artist's personal exploration of the human experience, capturing a sense of inner turmoil or emotional intensity. ...
Sophie Barber’s paintings, ranging from large to tiny, depict that which she finds around herself. Natural and manmade imagery, like tents, houses, birds, and people, are painted against block-colour backgrounds. The simplicity of the composition alludes to folk art, with subject matter presenting itself as illusive visions rather than literal representations. Curiously and humorously, Barber works with existing images, like sculptures of Franz West, Giotto or Annie Leibovitz’s photographs of Kendrick Lamar, sometimes painting directly on magazine covers. The artist’s depictions are chunky, atmospheric, homely, yet secretive. In Barber’s hands, the mundane is continuously reimagined and recontextualised through the lens of abundance. ...
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