A little out of inspiration, I turned to some paintings to get me motivated. I began by casually re-visiting some Stanley Spencers- with the idea in mind of reviewing an artist who had ties with the (british) landscape.
Spencer's work can often be compositionally quite complex, and I'm fascinated by it, but it also makes me feel physically ill to look at. It's unsettling, and uncomfortable, and not just the more confrontational "Resurrection" paintings, but even the landscapes. But, there's something about the sometimes complex, unrealistic way that he composes an image
I haven't got a particular mind to make something that looks "british", but something about Spencer's (and Dunbar's, and Mahoney's) work looks inherently so. Maybe it's the colour palette, but I think there's also something in the eeriness that takes to it. I'll keep it in mind with my own.
Stanley Spencer
Charles Mahoney
I can't say I investigated much into this Mahoney, but appreciated the surrealness. I'm not even sure what kind of feeling it is there to evoke, but again like all of these, it's a little nightmarish.
Evelyn Dunbar
Dunbar and Spencer's paintings here are the ones that most explicitly document the landscape and the people within them. What I'm mostly taking from, each of these artists, is the initiative to make work that is just a little interesting...
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