By Maggi Hambling, I have always had a proclivity for art made about or relating to water, the sea being the epitome of power and beauty, these paintings could not capture it more perfectly. You get a feeling of energy and power from just looking at them, the brush strokes and texture the water seems ready to wash right through the canvas and into the space they inhabit.
“The older I get I identify with the land which is being eroded, the sea is like time - you can do nothing about it. Death will come, the sea will come. It’s a metaphor for life.”
By David Agenjo, London based artist has a whole collection of recent portraits that I could adorn my walls with, the textures that are applied to the surfaces make me want one even more. The patterns in the brushstrokes add an extra dimension, like another hidden painting within the existing paintings.
“…colour is my obsession; an organic means of experimentation and exploration of beauty. My paintings are interlinked: new canvases are used as palettes, where textured random patchworks of colours are formed to be used as a given on which to overlay, merge and intersplice” .
