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Jubilate! Show
The Chapel Row Gallery, Bath
20 – 25th August 2010
Jubilate! Encore: an exhibition of paintings by Paul Hobbs
The playfulness of Paul Hobbs’ abstract paintings is a visual feast of pattern, colour and movement. They start with a photograph, a snap-shot of flowers, a mooring rope reflected in water, dancing flames, or elements of Gothic architecture. From this raw material, forms are selected, projected onto paper, and their outline traced. This process is repeated two or three times. Each time he uses contrasting shapes that cut across and disrupt pre-existing boundaries. Finally he fills the remaining empty space with a rich tapestry of vibrant hues and patterns. The result is a complex surface in which the original natural forms are entwined in a dazzle camouflage of densely layered shapes and colours - a space of fluid boundaries in a state of constant flux.
Wrapped in Light, acrylic on paper, 116 x 70.5cm
Small Wonder - Great Wander, acrylic on paper, 116 x 70.5cm
Dancing Light, acrylic on paper, 116 x 70.5cm
Flowers of the Field, acrylic on paper, 116 x 70.5cm
Playing the Lines, acrylic on paper, 116 x 70.5cm
Cloisters I, acrylic on paper, 70 x 51cm
Dappled Arch, acrylic on paper, 70 x 51cm
Via Sacra, acrylic on paper, 70 x 51cm
Psychoflora, acrylic on paper, 70 x 51cm
Firewater, acrylic on paper, 70 x 51cm
Garden Rose, giclee print, 70 x 51cm
Gentle Breeze, giclee print, 70 x 51cm
Daisy Fresh, acrylic on paper, 70 x 51cm
Splish Splash, acrylic on paper, 70 x 51cm
Ripple Factor, acrylic on paper, 70 x 51cm
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