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Dashiell Manley
Elegy (purple impositions, one eyed fantasy), 2020Oil on linen60 x 48 inchesFurther images
Dashiell Manley developed his Elegy paintings out of previous painting series, which depicted newspaper and media content. Less analytical in approach, the elegy series illustrates a freer and gestural expression,...Dashiell Manley developed his Elegy paintings out of previous painting series, which depicted newspaper and media content. Less analytical in approach, the elegy series illustrates a freer and gestural expression, which the artist builds up on canvas from sequential and repeated strokes of oil paint with a palette knife. Manley has drawn inspiration from a range of sources in his practice, including landscape painting, Ukiyo-e woodblock painting from the Edo Era in Japan, and experimentations with flowers and plants, most recently. His intense fields of color and allover abstract compositions elicit a simultaneous sense of awe and of meditation, resulting in a surface on which to process the world of today.
