Kerry King
Artist Statement
I produce my work to address the comfort and affection of family memories. I aim for the audience to reminisce on warming and comforting memories of their own. I work from my own family photographs selecting images that I feel express a more commonly shared experience. I want my work to be a cheerful reminder of simple life experiences that make you smile.
The materials I use are oil paint with linseed stand oil on canvas. I use these materials because oil paint colours are rich and bright and the medium gives my work a gloss affect. This gives my painting more depth and has a link to the source image of a photograph. The canvas varies in size but is always square or rectangular again to fit the photograph format.
My style of painting is loose and expressive, but gives enough detail from source material to not be abstract work. My paintings are also reductive processes. I only paint what I think is necessary information often only hinting at a surface or an object.
My works highlights, the transition from photograph to painting, and are intentionally seen to come from a photographic source. The photography element is about past and memory and how photos capture a single moment that has passed or even died that can never be revisited.
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