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Kristian Purcell
( United Kingdom )

Drawing; Painting


Kristian Purcell - Figurative paintings  Drawing, Painting

The subjects of these pictures can be divided into two categories. I suppose the first is quite autobiographical: my friends, surroundings, travels, experiences, the places I go to drink and watch bands, or sing myself. The second relies on found images for inspiration, the images of people watching nuclear testing, or fashion photo that can be taken out of it's commercial purpose and transformed into something else. Memories have become increasingly significant to me and constructing a picture from a the memory of a moment is a something that is shattered by the use of photography: an image created by the play of light on film or an electronic sensor has little to do with the way our minds record - and often distort - things we have seen.
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Self-Portrait in Grey with Painting

 
R34 at Mineola

 
'Finistere' after Keith Vaughan

 
Roisin sous la lampe, 2010

 
She Stands by the Window, 2009

 
Black and Grey with Red Shoes (Betty Frances) 2009

 
The Reader (Jack Sharp)

 
Sarah Dunn, 2009

 
Mark Sparrow, 2009

 
The Chess Player (Johnny Parry)

 
After the Death of Sardanapalus, 2009

 
Pip Sadler, 2009

 
The Blue Angel II, 2009

 
'He writes in his room, she reads him in her room'

 
Piece by Piece, 2009

 
A Drunken Silenus, after Rubens, 2009

 
A Madonna in Orange and Blue, after Munch, 2009

 
Seren

 
She smokes outside the gate, 2008

 
The Portugal Man II (Christian Webb)

 
The Portugal Man

 
Portrait of the artisti in the studio

 
Hunter

 
Despair II, 2008

 
Eeva reads her poems from a folded sheet, 2008

 
Eeva under the Water, 2009

 
Eyelash Painting

 
The Audience

 
Girl in Red

 
Beccy Singing

 
In the Blue Chair

 
James R

 
Watching the Tests Part I

 
Watching the Tests: Part II

 
Watching the Tests: Part III

 
Watching the Tests: Part IV

 
In the Hall of Glain Orme

 
Golden Shoes

 
The Poetry Reading, 2009

 
Gemma and Sophia

 
Beccy Solesbury, 2008

 
Laura Harbard

 
Despair, 2006.

 
Lily wears a hat

 
Lovberg

 
The Upstairs Bar, Esquires

 
The Blue Angel, 2005.

 
At her desk, 2006.

 

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