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James Bradshaw
Bradshaw’s paintings are genuinely humorous with a faux-naivety which lures the viewer into a false sense of security, the true extent of the theme is only apparent when the viewer is too closely endeared to the work to be able to escape. Bradshaw takes the viewer on an emotional journey, presenting images which are, at once, self paradoxical, happy and sad, embracing and rejecting, heartening and sinister. He relishes the tensions created between the subtlety of his touch and the harshness of his drawing, creating both delicate and crude gestures. To some extent, Bradshaw’s works are somewhat reassuring.
They manage to successfully make light of the serious themes of
life, death, god, religion, love and hate. Selected Exhibitions: 2005 'The Hollow Salon 2005' - (artist & curator), Hollow
Contemporary Art, London. 2003 "Head for bussiness", Everett House Gallery, London. 2001 "International Painting" Gallery RA, Amsterdam, Holland. Links: |
