Sunday, February 14, 2010

Paul Cummings - Spice Cottage [2009]

Paul Cummings graduated from Cheltenham University in 1999 with a BA Honours under the tutelage of Anita Taylor, Bob Davison and Paul Rosenbloom. He has been working for the last decade within the creative industries as a digital art director within marketing and advertising for some of the largest global agencies producing work for international brand names. His current location is London and particularly the East End where lives and has a studio. Paul has been painting and producing print works that have been gaining popularity from the outset. His professional knowledge of the digital environment progressively impacts on his traditional fine art practice that he is currently engaged in.

“This is the latest landscape I have been working on and this scene depicts the East End of London representing the lowest end of the social income scale and is a locality of which the majority is surviving off welfare or otherwise on a very low income. An ad hoc vista is assimilated from the remorseless post war redevelopment that surrounds the subject matter. With an office butted tightly up against the shop with tower blocks rising ominously further behind. A flyover intrudes from above to cut up the city and communities with its inappropriate town planning. This picture clearly shows the rapid demise of the last expansion and social housing plans in the 50's and 60's.”

See:
http://www.paulcummingsart.com/blog/

[Computer graphics, 100 x 100 cm]

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