The Storefront Series
The paintings of storefronts of London began with my interest in developing a series of works which allowed me to explore the overtly painterly descriptive elements of the facades – peeling paintwork: harsh comic book-like colouration; damaged surfaces; encrusted and worn brickwork – whilst simultaneously pursuing more formal ideas concerned with grids, intersecting lines and the 2 dimensional emphasis of the structures.
From the outset of the project, it was important to me to paint the London of my immediate lived experience based on drawings and photographic reference. What became apparent over the time I worked on the paintings was the fact that the facades of the storefronts changed – the shops becoming either refurbished or in a number of cases closed down - often before the paintings were completed.
For me, this gave the project a romantic and nostalgic narrative, both as a document of the ‘vanishing’ of the small and personal, and as a symbol of the continuing expansion of the boundaries of London as a work in progress.
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