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BARON GILVAN
Palmer's visions radiate with a preternatural light
that engages and emanates within and through
the visual pleasure of his work. I'm drawn to it like
a moth to a street light. Landscapes are scenery,
there is theatrical lighting and sometimes
figurative aspects and cameo roles which exit the
scene, a bit like a live opera. The act of making a
painting is important to me, one visceral decision
leads to another as the work becomes realised by
applying paint directly wet into wet. I draw out the
subject using what's at hand – brushes, charcoal,
rags and fingers twisting and turning the paintings
until images reveal a cliff edge or a space
containing bathos and absurdity, something both
divine and decrepit. (Chris Gilvan-Cartwright –
Sussex-based artist who exhibited in a Visionaries
exhibition at Messums in Wiltshire in 2019, work
on loan)
Howl
Oil on canvas
25 x 30 cm
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