Castle Fine Art | Oxley and Dylan | Exhibitions

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When visiting Castle Fine Art two artists work caught my attention. Robert Oxley was showing and selling his work when I was at Castle Fine Art. Oxleys affinity with nature is evident in every little detail of his paintings, from paint drip to brush stroke. Oxley claims that he likes giving natural history a 'psychedelic' twist. I liked his work because of the strong colour used, it creates a new approach to natural history painting bringing the art into a new direction. I find Oxleys work really inspiring as he takes a genre\ a style and places his own influence on it and that is what makes him a successful artist. 


Dylan's work also caught my eye. Especially 'Man on a Bridge'. Again I appreciated the strong use of colour matched with the painterly technique. I like how raw the image looked with visible brush strokes where the paper was still visible underneath. This is something I have been trying to do in my own practise. Not over working areas and letting my brush strokes be as they are leaving behind more expression as it adds the painterly quality but also matches in with my subject matter currently which deals with natural processes and forms.


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