Ryan Hewett : ORDER

About

Throughout 2016 Hewett has continued to experiment - revising his entire approach and his working environment in the process. The 23 new works signal a radical shift from the artist’s deliberately chaotic process of construction and destruction towards a more considered and confident approach. While paint is still applied impasto - brushes and masks are employed alongside the palette knife to create hard lines and graded blocks of colour. Hewett’s new collection includes self-portraits, portraits of Lucian Freud, Egon Schiele, Marcel Duchamp, Samuel Beckett and Audrey Hepburn and, for the first time ever, landscapes. While representing a significant step change for the artist, Hewett’s new works retain the unsettling beauty for which he has become renowned.

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R Y A N   H E W E T T

Born in South Africa in 1979, Ryan Hewett began his career drawing with pencil, before graduating to oils and developing a highly expressive style notable for sculptural and textured surfaces and unique flesh tones thick with florid reds and lead white. He works impulsively, without a preliminary sketch or charcoal, beginning by applying paint directly to the surface and working quickly for fear of the oil drying. Hewett’s interest in both figuration and abstraction recalls the painters of  The London School, including Frank Auerbach and Lucian Freud, who remain influences both in terms of technique and subject matter. Hewett’s work can be found in private collections internationally, including collections in South Africa, Dubai, Los Angeles, Zurich, Miami, London, New York and Riyadh.

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