Month: December 2018

This painting is about the earth. It is so because the earth is the place that welcomes all of us when we are unable to stand, or walk. When we have a problem with our balance, the earth is there to protect us, and will guide us through the recovery of our right senses, and of our conscious life.

This painting forms part of the artist’s seminal Blue Paintings series — a body of work that has come to define a quietly radical approach to contemporary portraiture. At once formally rigorous and emotionally unguarded, the series probes the psychic dissonance of living in an era where the boundaries between the self and society are increasingly porous,