Paintings « Mark Selby Fine Artist Painting and Drawing

Paintings

Taken from places on the streets of Nottingham or made from notes scribbled down while travelling around, these paintings depict a world of limits and boundaries, of bars and barriers.

Threaded through all the paintings is a string of themes that lead through landscapes dislocated, restless and driven by a desire to be free and without responsiblity or obedience.

Big skies and colourfields.

Big sky and colourfield paintins
Monumental, architectual, magnificent. All of our labours look so small under the vastness of the wild, uncaring sky.
Big skies and colour fields

High rise flats

Braidwood Court Highrise - Nottingham

FFF - Function Finds Form and the form is good. With everything the same and nothing standing out, the form is featureless. FFF - Form foregoes form and the built environment itself becomes formless and anonymous. When all that is solid melts into air how are we supposed to thrive? Or do we benefit from the uniform?
Paintings from the 1996 and 1998 series

Motorways

The Motorway At Night Pre-cast, concrete, anonymous. Are we there yet? And how would you know anyway?
Paintings from the 1998 series

Shopping trolleys, grids and pylons

Shopping Trolley

Are you happy when you shop or do you feel like your imprisoned - behind bars?
Paintings from the 1996 series

Law Enforcers, Boundary Breakers

Photo: Subway

Social tension between those that don’t want to co-operate or take part at the margins and those that make sure we do what we’re told. Living on the edge of Nottingham’s red light district and having the yard behind the flat used as a ‘place’ and toilet by those working the streets was definitely and influence. Smile at the bitter irony of all that goes on on the outside.

Paintings from the 1996 series