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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