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Chris Oddie
“from studio to gallery”
My interest in Chris Oddie’s work stems from of the sincerity that
can be perceived in the artwork itself. There is something very real
about the various figurative painting he creates and yet they are
absolutely abstract expressionist in nature. His lines are clean and
placed with a surety that comes from an accomplished and confident
artist who needs northing other than his own sensibility and a
flexible medium (oil paint) to manipulate until he feels the artwork
is completed. Below Chris explains in is own words what he believes
that his art is centred around:
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“I would say my work is expressionistic, and an essential
component of my practice is that as a draughtsman
observation is fundamental to my work. Generally,
I prefer to work from life, I do not use preliminary
sketches, each drawing or painting stands as a finished
piece. My paintings do not necessary reflect the
recognisable subject; my method is to work at speed,
consciously and unconsciously responding to the subject
by making an image of it, destroying that image, and
remaking it exploiting shape, form, and colour until I feel
the drawing/painting is complete.”
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images:©ChrisoOdie.
summary written by Denis Taylor ©Tubes artists gallery