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Artist Exhibitions:
2004
Open Studio, Blue Door Studio,
Mortimer, Reading, England
(Solo)
Waterloo Gallery, London,
England
Surface Gallery, Nottingham,
England
2003-04
ArtSway, Sway, England
Drawing Open, Bracknell
Gallery, South Hill Park,
Bracknell, England
2003
Obsidian Art, Stoke
Mandeville, England
Taurus Gallery, Oxford,
England
St.Clare's College, Oxford,
England
Newbury College, ...
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Artist Galleries:
Coming Soon!
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Artist Reviews:
BBC Review Of Convergences -
An Exhibition of Abstract
Drawings - 2005
Visual artist Tom Cartmill is
showing a series of large
scale abstract drawings at The
Gallery on the Park, Leighton
Park School. Primarily a
painter the drawings have
evolved from the preparatory
sketches he's been making for
his paintings ...
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Collections:
Abacus Group plc., England
New College Chapel, Oxford
University, Oxford, England
Private collections: Belgium,
Brazil, Italy, Norway, Spain,
Switzerland, UK
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Commissions:
SELECTED COMMISSIONS
1996 -2000
Series of commissions from New
College Chapel, Oxford
University, England for a
picture each term (nine
paintings in total)
1999
Commission from New College
Chapel, Oxford University,
England for 8 paintings to
accompany eight poems & pieces
of sacred music
1995
Private Commission to paint a
"contemporary ...
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Artist Statement for Tom Cartmill
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My paintings are multi-textured and multi-layered. Initially built up with numerous layers of gesso, at differing depths, layer after layer of paint is then applied. The juxtaposition and building up of different materials and textures is an essential part of my practice.
The paintings evolve slowly, layer upon layer. Some colours and motifs are painted over, no longer seen. Others are visible through successive coats of paint, having been rubbed through, scraped, worn away. These traces and suggestions of former layers are evidence of events from an earlier time in a painting's past and of the progression towards its resolution.
Change through time is an ongoing concern in my work. I am fascinated by the way buildings, objects, faces and bodies, for example, weather. These actions of 'wear and tear', give things a resonance that 'the new' lacks. I try to communicate this quality in my work.
Thematically, I am also interested in visual perception, in particular the idea that we can receive conflicting information from a given visual stimulus. I find the subjectivity of perception fascinating: The fact that the accretion of experiences, and memories of those experiences, modify and define how we interpret the world around us. The inevitable layering of one experience/ memory upon another effecting how and what one sees.
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