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movements like Supports/Surfaces

with punctured holes

crafted from plaster and metal

anchoring it to a specific location where for many decades the tree defined its urban surroundings

Their urgent movement toward light under gravity’s pull mirrors the resilience and struggle inherent in human life

Black Leather Home Page movements like Supports/SurfacesBlack Leather, 2023, is a deep delve into materiality. My paintings are often an immersive interaction between texture, sensation and human connection and this painting is a small study of the essence of my practice. With reference to fetish, softness and drapery painting of the Renaissance, Black Leather is also about pushing the idea of tactility. Its a painting that stirs a childlike impulse to reach out and touch it. Yet there is a tension,