Working as a freelance between
1991and 2002, I divided my time between commercial work in television
and film, and
my own self-generated art, which comprises landscape, life painting and
portraiture.
Until recently, I have always kept the techniques I employed in scenic
art
which are more graphic and abbreviated in nature, separate from those
employed
in my own fine artwork.
I was working in an
environment in which an actor in Tudor costume could share a joke
between takes with a
mutant sporting prosthetic claws; both sitting on the wing section of a
plywood
Spitfire. Such images of extraordinary contradiction very quickly
became
the norm in this studio environment, but I found these conjunctions
constantly
amusing and captivating; this vivid imagery now forms a reference
archive
for my current work.
Much of Glenns current visual repertory can be
traced back
to his career as a scenic artist between 1988 and 2003; several years
with
the BBC at Television Centre. Two projects on which he headed the
scenic
art team won BAFTA awards for design; Portrait of a Marriage 1989
andPersuasion
1994. Television provided opportunities for him to practice
trompe-loeil
techniques and visual trickery on an industrial scale; employing
cut-outs,
glass-shots and colour separation overlays as well as painting
conventional,
if oversized, canvases.
| Mermaid Tank acrylic on canvas 122 x 92cm |
Archery Practice acrylic and oil on canvas |
Smoke and Mirrors oil on canvas |
Conjoined Twins acrylic and oil on canvas |
Human Bridge acrylic and oil on canvas 122 x122cm |
The Claw oil on canvas |
The Emerald Archer acrylic and oil on canvas 122 x 92cm |
Horus the Illusionist oil on canvas 122 x 92cm |
Levitating Lady III oil on canvas 122 x 92cm |
Levitator | The Lincolnshire Giant oil on canvas 62 x 124cm |
Mermaid acrylic and oil on canvas |
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