BA (Hons) Fine Art
My practice is concerned with transformations through anamorphic distortions and the oldest traditional alchemic art form, the process and theory of oil painting. I describe this developed style of painting as Metamorphic Baroque Conceptualism. Oil paint is within itself an alchemic process; like the practise of alchemy, oil paint derives from water and stone and is intrinsic of chemical transformations suggestive of theological and magical metamorphosis. Through painting I combine the romance of traditional practise with the theatricality of transformative phenomenonâs, such as the study of metamorphosis. With influence from antiquity poetry, transformative epicâs and baroque paintings of old masters, I investigate the transformative ideas when directed at phenomenology and mental anthropology. I take a traditional allegorical approach when depicting transformative phenomenonâs, with the intent of producing paintings that suggest a contemporary take on romantic mythology. The final painted image is a combined gathering of information that goes through a research process before becoming a final piece. The paintings start based on a subject of mythology, then combined to anthropological, biological and phenomenological ideas of transformations, I create collages with imagery with extensive allegory and anamorphic distortions. I am expressing the classical ideas of transformations through the eyes of a contemporary artist, pop culture images and transforming found images back to a romantic baroque style, with a phenomenological undertone. Through this style I am creating baroque conceptualism. Ebridgeman@hotmail.com