Michael Samuels

About

Michael Samuels' work considers urban life and our relationship to the built environment. On first site his enticing seascapes appear to present an idealized paradise though this is an idyll formed in the mind of a city dweller. Empty and quiet, tranquil and submissive the scenes appear to be intended for escapist pleasure though on closer inspection the rocky land masses actually suggest a darker and more mysterious world; this is a paradise filtered through literature and film, it is intangible and beyond ones reach, lonely and overwhelming.