John Brokenshire’s work skirts the boundary between abstract expressionism and figurative landscape painting. In much of his work the natural world is used as a vehicle to carry a particular emotional response, with the figurative elements of the landscape seeping through an ethereal and expressive foreground. Often the figurative inspirations for the paintings are almost totally eclipsed by an otherworldly haze. It is in these moments where John Brokenshire leaves the constraints of the figurative that his most sensitive works are made.
John Brokenshire works primarily with oil on canvas and aims to deal with the universal themes of dream, mortality and healing. His love of the medium of paint is evident from his playful and unconventional colour choices and the atmosphere which these choices produce. In his recent works he has created peaceful, meditative canvases which project a feeling of spaciousness and respite
John Brokenshire has been showing regularly with Curwen Gallery since he was chosen for our annual Northern Graduates exhibition in 1995. This October we are John Brokenshire’s seventh solo exhibition, in which he has produced some of his most profound and sensitive works to date.
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| John Brokenshire, Cloud Descending, 100 x 100cm, £1850 |
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splendid works to help celebrate the refurbishing of the Gallery!
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