Brian Cheeswright
Brian Cheeswright’s painting practice has always moved between the figure and the abstract. His work is concerned with the push and pull of Art History, with his own sensual and escapist pleasure of paint as a substance and a vehicle to other worlds and bodies. Brian works on a small scale, quickly, usually with a determination not to have a plan, but lets the image come through. Naturally, certain scenes, characters and shapes emerge time and again: circles, triangles, eyes, teeth, feet, moons, medieval knights, trees, tears. If he has an overall plan it is to build a frieze of life, where even the hardest moments in the beige mundane of ordinary life can chime with the golden hearts of the one in all of us.
At a meta-level Brian is also interested in the subjects of addiction, mental health and wealth/poverty barriers within the ecology of the artworld/s and to what extent art is a catalyst for healing and also for exploitation, rivalry and low self-esteem.
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