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Martyn Cross, Untitled, 2021

Martyn Cross

Untitled, 2021
Pastel on paper
23 x 30.5 cm
9 x 12 in
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Cross is an artist engaged with 'world making.' Primarily a painter, oil pastel and charcoal drawings are a key strand of his practice. His work is a means to explore...
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Cross is an artist engaged with 'world making.' Primarily a painter, oil pastel and charcoal drawings are a key strand of his practice. His work is a means to explore the inner life and strangeness of the ordinary. Each work begins in reality, with recognizable limbs and elements of landscape, which transform into uncanny scenes. Biomorphic landscapes speak to mythologies, but in Cross's paintings the narratives are knowingly ambiguous. Familiar and mysterious, quiet and epic, scale and irregularity in proportion puzzles the viewer.

Cross states, ‘At the heart of my practice lies a blend of compulsions: an unnerving need to physically produce something with my hands; a search for truth; to feel some kind of connection to the space I exist within; to imagine other potential human existence or experience beyond what we know.’
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