Paul Forrest- Artist Residency and Exhibition

Oil Painter Paul Forrest’s creations look like a mix of modern hieroglyphics and maps of other dimensions. He’s interested in creating paintings that people can look at for hours and constantly see knew things whilst being seduced by the richness of colour and compositional structure.

The centre piece of this show entitled ‘Godwits in Tokyo’ explores the layering of blocks of bright neon colours to give the viewer a sense of walking down a busy street in Tokyo at night. On closer inspection these neon signs are filled with miniature humans looking out at you, some waving others just observing the scene outside the picture frame.

Paul has become a regular at festival time with this being his 4th residency in the Michael Fowler Centre foyer and has been working on this exhibition for the last 2 years. For the duration of the exhibition Paul will in the foyer working away at his easel creating new paintings and providing people the opportunity to meet the artist at work.

Paul Forrest thrives on being an exhibitionist at his exhibitions – How rare is it to actually meet an artist in the process of creating works?

“In my opinion this is my most original and uncompromising body of work yet and I hope as many people as possible get to see it”, says Paul

Visit www.paulforrest.co.nz for a preview.

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