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Another in my series of fractured imagery...Artists Statement
I graduated in 1999 from the University of Northampton with a degree in Fine Art.

My early and some current paintings are large in scale and are resulting from a specific interest in the deconstruction and fragmentation of imagery, with a more recent interest in pattern. They have consisted of many canvases, sometimes up to 50 for one image.
I like to variey my painting style - some works are polished and some could be described as raw and unfinished. My aims are certainly not to have a photographic representation, but rather a combination of the figurative and the more intuitive abstractions of pattern in positive and negative space, embracing the dialectic between figuration and abstraction.
My drawings are useful to me , on a smaller scale, they follow a similar theme of obliteration and reconstruction, and certainly inform my painting styles. The broader themes in my work investigate the mechanisms and modes of painting, its relationships with the image, as contrast or complimentary, and how this resonates with the viewer. I am very much interested in the stages of life, particularly infancy and old age and the mindset of emotions, particularly in terms of mortality.
I am currently working monochromatically, the resonance of black and white seems more profound and concrete. I am in the process of experimenting with pattern and scale in the works, i like the idea of the very small and very large in scale, something the mass produced image cannot capture.

Oil on Canvas 70 cm x 120cm 2009

www.marksibleyart.co.uk

Description
Another in my series of fractured imagery...Artists Statement
I graduated in 1999 from the University of Northampton with a degree in Fine Art.

My early and some current paintings are large in scale and are resulting from a specific interest in the deconstruction and fragmentation of imagery, with a more recent interest in pattern. They have consisted of many canvases, sometimes up to 50 for one image.
I like to variey my painting style - some works are polished and some could be described as raw and unfinished. My aims are certainly not to have a photographic representation, but rather a combination of the figurative and the more intuitive abstractions of pattern in positive and negative space, embracing the dialectic between figuration and abstraction.
My drawings are useful to me , on a smaller scale, they follow a similar theme of obliteration and reconstruction, and certainly inform my painting styles. The broader themes in my work investigate the mechanisms and modes of painting, its relationships with the image, as contrast or complimentary, and how this resonates with the viewer. I am very much interested in the stages of life, particularly infancy and old age and the mindset of emotions, particularly in terms of mortality.
I am currently working monochromatically, the resonance of black and white seems more profound and concrete. I am in the process of experimenting with pattern and scale in the works, i like the idea of the very small and very large in scale, something the mass produced image cannot capture.

Oil on Canvas 70 cm x 120cm 2009

www.marksibleyart.co.uk