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| Nicholas James Juett |
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Cambridge born, Nicholas James Juett returns to home ground, after a
successful transatlantic career in the United States, to revisit and
re-examine, through his expressive painting, personally iconic locations.
With an aptitude for detailed drawing, coupled with exceptional talent for
manipulating vibrant colours and employing bold brush strokes, Juett’s work
revives the places of his childhood and contemplates the modernisation of
the present. The three major pieces of Juett’s work exposed in this exhibition
belong to a wider series of vibrant interiors, each featuring an imposing
and provocative blank television screen. Writer and film producer, Nicolas
Klein described Juett’s work as “panoply of distant memories, punctuated by
familiar objects”: it is as though the work reflects something personal and
private while maintaining universality by featuring familiar objects which
provide the observer points of cultural reference. Nevertheless, it is the
flamboyant use of colour, indicative of the artist’s own personality, that
is the key to appreciating Juett’s work. Juett’s latest project, to which the two cityscapes belong, concerns the
external environment and the urban landscapes that modern living dictates.
Using modern technology, in the form of a mobile phone camera to capture the
initial impression of personally significant scenes, the paintings interpret
the subtleties of atmosphere and memory to create architecturally detailed
portrayals with just a hint of what is going on indoors. Furthermore, each
painting’s title is the postcode that corresponds to the street depicted, so
that every painting in the series may be topographically situated in maps or
on the Internet. t: 07752 158 821 e: juett@mail.com w: www.paintingsdirect.com |
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