Trevor Burgess: A Place to Live 14

A Place to Live 14
Oil on plywood
35 x 41cm

About Trevor Burgess

Recent regional prize winner of the The Discerning Eye, most of Trevor's work is about the ordinary business of living. Trevor is interested in a painting that explores relationships, people, contemporary urban spaces.

Although people tend to be the focus of attention, he is also concerned with the context of social interaction. There are recurring themes in the pictures which fascinate him, such as the interplay of signs within the cityscape, or how urban architecture creates a visually distinctive micro-environment at street level, and how momentary appearances are registered, glimpsed or over-looked in passing by.

Trevor’s work developed over a period of time when he was exploring the use of a less literally descriptive, painterly, figurative language in a series of paintings on the theme of the family, which culminated in some large works done on the MA Fine Art course in Barcelona in 1997/8. After this Trevor moved to London, and felt the need for a more concrete subject and specificity for his work. He turned to the immediate urban environment, and began using his own photographs as source material.

Trevor does not attempt to replicate the conventions of photography. In all representational art there is a gap between what is depicted and how it’s depicted. The peculiar pleasures of painting, for him, are all about this gap.

He uses a glossy liquid paint which brings out the flashes of bright colour that animate urban space. The fluidity, coarseness and texture of the paint contribute to a sense of the thickening of the air in the urban atmosphere, the ambiguity and the discontinuity of visual experience.

The recent series, "A Place to Live" draws on property adverts in newspapers. These paintings use thin glazes directly onto plywood, which absorbs the colour.

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