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Figure in Rocking Chair | mixed media on canvas on panel
Exhibition
Maxwell Doig | Figures in Solitude
19 Feb 2015 – 14 Mar 2015
Regular hours
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Monday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Address
- 74 Newman St
- London
England - W1T 3DB
- United Kingdom
Maxwell Doig | Figures in solitude new work
19 Feb - 14 Mar 2015
Doig is masterly in the conjuring of light from his acrylic medium: light that literally appears to emanate from his painstakingly painted canvases. He favours what he describes as, “dirty white back- grounds with shadows going across them. I like the way these throw light back out of the paintings”.
About
Maxwell Doig was born in Huddersfield. He graduated from Manchester School of Art in 1988 with a BA in Fine Art and went on to pursue his postgraduate studies in Fine Art at the Slade School of Art, London, between 1988 and 1990. Doig is preoccupied with the human figure and its spatial relationship combined with the interplay of light and shade. His use of unconventional viewpoints depicting static solitary figures along with the application of subtle pigments and textural complexity results in contemplative ephemeral imagery. In 1997 he was awarded the Villiers David Prize. He lives and works in Manchester.
