Oil Pastel on Paper by Gary Winters
Mediate (Doloroes & George)
Gary Winters
I studied at Dartington College of Arts in late-1990s and having worked mainly in performance and live art over the last 25 years, my practice is starting to have a renewed emphasis in print and 2D pieces.
I’m broadly influenced by Pop Art, Conceptual Art and the history of photography; with an interest in expressing task and process, repetition and rhythm, the layering of time. My work ranges across lens-based and print media, producing limited edition print works or one-off painted or collaged photographic pieces; often augmenting, disrupting and veiling pre-existing ‘found’ prints and images.
I have recently made a pledge to work with and use the art materials, items and curios I have accumulated through my creative life – both as a stance and gesture towards consumption and also as a limiting device to generate forays into new processes and practices. At times this makes the output hard to pin down, and knowingly eclectic, a curious marriage of the media leading an idea or an idea explored through a material.
Meditate Series
In this series oil pastel is used to work over a page; smudging, glitching, veiling and corrupting an image. These surfaces are a mix of contexts: headshots of actors from yesteryear, pages of an instruction book on how to draw with pastels or a folio of precise roses by Redouté. The process semi-obstructs the original, allowing old and new to sit and seep in together.
Oil Pastel on Paper
45x33cm
Framed under glass