The exhibition will include a group of new paintings depicting hedgerow plants growing from a foreground hilltop earthen bank, above a patchwork of fields spreading out into the distance. His paintings appear at first traditional in composition, and almost Renaissance in execution, but behind this craft lies a strong theoretical understanding which gives the work a necessary contemporary resonance. In a style recalling botanical illustration, Canning's often melancholic paintings convey an atmospheric quality, with certain ...
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The exhibition will include a group of new paintings depicting hedgerow plants growing from a foreground hilltop earthen bank, above a patchwork of fields spreading out into the distance. His paintings appear at first traditional in composition, and almost Renaissance in execution, but behind this craft lies a strong theoretical understanding which gives the work a necessary contemporary resonance. In a style recalling botanical illustration, Canning's often melancholic paintings convey an atmospheric quality, with certain spiritual undertones. His canvases are strangely dream-like with soft amorphous horizons and limpid surfaces built up with numerous layers of oil and wax. Manifestly accessible, his work is thoroughly contemporary in its careful release and withholding of visual and conceptual signs.
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