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Thomas Simpson

Biography / C.V.
My creative practice spans drawing, painting and ceramics. Imagery draws on experience, not necessarily what has been observed but more importantly what has been felt. The work shifts between the abstract and the representational, imagined and actual locations, the earthly and the alien.

Paint is applied in an obsessive manner, small repetitious marks and huge gestural daubing’s using both traditional and non-traditional tools to create landscapes filled with familiar yet unsettling plants, characters, places and objects.

This lexicon carries into all areas of practice and is used in a variety of ways to explore what it means to make and the need to create.

Current work plays with space, mark making and is a culmination of a personal visual language which has been developing over the past 20 years. The imagery is intense, immersive and compulsive.


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