Verne Dawson's idiosyncraticpaintings defy contemporary art-world trends and eschew categorisation. JohnHutchinson's survey of the artist’s work to date provides fascinating insightinto a complex body of work.
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Verne Dawson's idiosyncraticpaintings defy contemporary art-world trends and eschew categorisation. JohnHutchinson's survey of the artist’s work to date provides fascinating insightinto a complex body of work.
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The allusive paintings of Verne Dawson (b.1961) suggest an artist fascinated with storytelling. Seeking to contextualise Dawson's imagery, John Hutchinson's survey of the artist's work to date provides fascinating insight into a complex body of work.
Dawson's idiosyncratic paintings defy contemporary art-world trends and eschew categorisation, revealing an artist attuned to ideas and values that stimulate an original artistic vision. Informed by a range of interests and influences, from fairy tales to 19th-century American landscape painting, Dawson's eerie and diverse canvases are intriguing and thought-provoking. Highly individual, Verne Dawson's visionary body of work will make an important addition to the Contemporary Painters Series and to contemporary-art libraries in general.
Critic Reviews
'Verne Dawson's wondrous imagination time travels from one painting to the next. Mythic figures, fairy tales, astronomy, the primeval landscape, paradise found and lost, are all explored in the work of one of the most inventive painters and story-tellers of our time.' -- Robert Nickas
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John Hutchinson was formerly Director of the Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin. He has written a considerable number of catalogue essays and other publications, both for the Douglas Hyde Gallery and elsewhere.
The allusive paintings of Verne Dawson (b.1961) suggest an artist fascinated with storytelling. Seeking to contextualise Dawson's imagery, John Hutchinson's survey of the artist's work to date provides fascinating insight into a complex body of work. Dawson's idiosyncratic paintings defy contemporary art-world trends and eschew categorisation, revealing an artist attuned to ideas and values that stimulate an original artistic vision. Informed by a range of interests and influences, from fairy tales to 19th-century American landscape painting, Dawson's eerie and diverse canvases are intriguing and thought-provoking. Highly individual, Verne Dawson's visionary body of work will make an important addition to the Contemporary Painters Series and to contemporary-art libraries in general.
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