Easel Painting

Thursday 25th November - Thursday 9th December 2004

James' work is diverse and unpredictable in form and subject, including landscapes, interiors, apparent abstraction, paintings of structures such as sea walls and piers, figure paintings (often highly erotic) depictions of anonymous buildings and houses, and interpretations of old photographs from distant places.

A close relationship to Art History is central to James’ work and the paintings in the exhibition explore the traditions of Western easel painting.

Merlin James (born in Cardiff in 1960) is a painter and art critic. James graduated from the Royal College of Art in 1986, and has Lectured and published extensively on painting. He has primarily written on mid twentieth-century artists, but also earlier figures including Titian, Hobbema, Thomas Jones.

James exhibits widely in Europe and America. Recent solo shows have been held at the Kerlin Gallery, Dublin (2003), Andrew Mummery Gallery, London (2002), and Brent Sikkema Gallery, New York (2002). He has been included in group shows at, among others, MW Projects, London, The Approach Gallery, London, and The Nunnery, London. Current and forthcoming group exhibitions are at artconnectionlille, Lille; APT Gallery, London; RHA, Dublin; Colby College, New York; and Whitechapel Gallery, London

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