I have identified a prominent curiosity in the highlighted qualities of the contemporary lifestyle in constituted social activities, additionally carefully designed eccentric objects in still life. Staged frameworks in photography, prompt directing and conscious unorthodox narrative, convey this awareness, translated into oil paint medium.

My practice is a progressive act incorporated into my day-to-day life. I am torn whether my work is entirely conceptual or material based, currently I am more concerned with the surface in the deception of colour and depth made with lesser application. Occasionally I cannot imagine my own interpretation of focus. I never display the complete configuration; I can never finish a painting.

Aesthetics are imperative, and fundamentally need to be robust to interpret the thematic material. Images are carefully examined to be appropriate for imitation. A vast objective in my self-development originated in the struggles in replication, the anatomy of the head and concluding a compromise in how to address my own logic of realism.

I paint in transparent consistencies. I am keen to produce flush paintings, as thin as possible, as if there is barely any paint on the canvas. Correlating colour in what I understand as ‘drama’; dark greys, blues, burnt umber; theatrical and rousing and I personally feel are more applicable to expressing how ‘drama’ airs. I intentionally try to push the ‘No Man’s Land of Experience’ to my spectators, placing them on the edge of the oppressed drama occurring before them, comparable to Edward Hopper and Eric Fischl, not really knowing what stance you have on it, furthermore developing an individual realisation.

Michael Harley Forrister

Artworks by Michael Harley Forrister

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