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Artist Statement:
A Synopsis by Jazz singer/Art
critic George Melly
Michael Forbes is an extremely
accomplished painter. So much
is clear from even a cursory
examination of his work.
However its not how well one
can paint in the academic
sense so much as what one does
with this ability. and here it
strikes me that Mr Forbes,who
was born and brought up in the
extreme North of Scotland, has
been granted access to a
poetic world all the more
remarkable given his
isolation. It is not a
comfortable world. There is a
great deal of tension, of
alienation, and of menace in
the strange events taking
place in the landscape of his
imagination, Balloons fish,
animals sinister personages,
dramas and disasters about to
happen, and a certain black
humor, are his subject matter.
His pictures are what the
leader of Surrealism, Andre
Breton demanded of a work of
art, Windows opening to an
inner landscape. They are
truly impressive.
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Further Information
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Artist Galleries:
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Commissions:
Coming Soon!
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Collections for Michael Forbes:
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Monty Python/Hollywood Director, Terry Gilliam, London,UK
Sainsbury's collection, London UK
Travis, London,UK
United Distillers, Edinburgh,UK
Jack Malloy, Maryland,USA
Frederick Turner, Paris,France
Museum of London Transport, London, UK
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