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James Henry Johnston
Ireland
Artist highlights
- Experienced Artist
- Works on commission
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Artwork details
- Medium : Oil on Canvas
- Other details : Artwork on supported wooden frame. Ready to hang. Framing on request.
- Dimensions : 15x18.1in
About this artwork
This painting is from is a series of paintings that are relatively autobiographical and also explore the lability of memories and how they change through time, via experience, insight and loss. How we can see more in them as we mature.
These are paintings of a childhood in the "Troubles" of Northern Ireland, which left the knawing sense of absence, lost potential and a longing for a home that is no longer there.
The paintings deliberately leave parts… of the canvas unpainted, "unfinished" or blurred to express how memory alters with time and how some of those who helped make our memories are no longer here to share them with us anymore.
This painting "Ulster Gothic" is of the weekly visit to the Grandparents. Some enjoyed this day out. Some did not. It is a painting about split affections, or emotional divide and rule. The children given varying degrees of attention and affection. The boy at the front appears almost invisible in his grandparents affection or so he feels.
These are paintings of a childhood in the "Troubles" of Northern Ireland, which left the knawing sense of absence, lost potential and a longing for a home that is no longer there.
The paintings deliberately leave parts… of the canvas unpainted, "unfinished" or blurred to express how memory alters with time and how some of those who helped make our memories are no longer here to share them with us anymore.
This painting "Ulster Gothic" is of the weekly visit to the Grandparents. Some enjoyed this day out. Some did not. It is a painting about split affections, or emotional divide and rule. The children given varying degrees of attention and affection. The boy at the front appears almost invisible in his grandparents affection or so he feels.
James Henry Johnston
Ireland
Credentials
- Experienced Artist
- Works on commission
« The human face is the most potent primary image. Looking at another person’s face reveals and reflects us. »
James Henry Johnston is an Irish artist whose love for cinema is incorporated into his artwork. He gives his paintings a vibrancy that evokes a sense of movement to his still life pieces. Each series that comes from the Irishman is based around a particular theme and he sees the human face as the most potent primary image. Johnston uses his fingers and palette knife - as well as his brush - to distort the subject in his artworks.
