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'The Music Room', 2022, Oil on Canvas, 120 x 90 cm, John Monks
Exhibition
Language by John Monks
9 Mar 2022 – 15 Apr 2022
Regular hours
- Monday
- Closed
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 17:30
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 17:30
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 17:30
- Friday
- 10:00 – 17:30
- Saturday
- 11:00 – 14:00
- Sunday
- Closed
Address
- 4 John Islip Street
- London
- SW1P 4PX
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Tube: Pimlico
The range of Monks' painterly process – pouring the paint, glazing the surface in layers and scraping with a palette knife – allows him to weave and layer surfaces, and in doing so, he imbues his subjects with a narrative, implying atmosphere, life and change.
About
The language of a painting is written in brushstrokes. Layer upon layer of words and stories are in the layers upon layers of thick impasto paint that is John Monks’ iconic painting style. In his new exhibition Monks unravels a discourse that encompasses the binaries of past and present, light and dark, decadence and dilapidation. The paintings become portraits of abandoned rooms filled with whispers of the past. The stories of these rooms are written in the patina of the painting’s surface. The works reflect the passage of time within a space.
This exhibition will consist of new oil paintings that are partly an amalgamation of imagination and invention completed over the last three years.
