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Vivien Blackett

London
I am an artist living and working in London
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I trawl through images taken from a variety of sources both contemporary and historical, on art, medicine, botany, alchemy and science. I am interested in the frescoes and the predellas of early Renaissance painting and the illusion of texture. My drawings continue to be an important and playful part of my research for the paintings and I use them to experiment with connections, scale, illusion and meaning. Despite the disparity of the various elements, I am trying to suggest a logic or connectivity which questions the nature of appearance and our experience of the world. In my earlier work I was working on composite panel paintings but recently I have gone back to working on single panels.

 

Branching peak, rainbow cloud

Viral peaks, rainbow ring

Viral peak, orange branching

Twin peaks, ripple river

Viral peak, rainbow cloud

Crazy peak, blue swirling

Linked peaks, rainbow ring

Three peaks, rainbow loops

Large gathering

Pink shoot, cloud net

Rock river, spiky plants

Twin peaks, rainbow ring

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