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#ink
#landscapes
#Max Naylor
#oil painting
#painting
“Narcissus” (2023), ink on paper, 51 x 66 centimeters. All pictures © Max Naylor, shared with permission
Working in vivid washes of ink and oil paint, artist Max Naylor renders impressionistic dreamscapes that emerge from nostalgic recollections and imagined areas. Specializing in pure textures like gilled mushrooms scaling a tree trunk or the smooth ripples of water, Naylor creates what he calls a “parallel universe, a microcosm that’s just like our world however free from the shackles of actuality.” The scenes usually veer towards the unnatural, favoring otherworldly shade palettes and unlikely lighting. “In these areas, it may be evening and day concurrently,” he says. “You may stare up on the sky while noticing the vegetation flowering at your toes.”
The ethereal qualities of Naylor’s works echo his course of, which includes letting the fluid supplies dictate the contours of the compositions and permitting the landscapes to “nicely up from my unconscious and spill onto the floor…The works in ink are made shortly. On the identical time, I’m engaged on bigger oil work that take for much longer. Working at these totally different tempos retains issues recent and thrilling for me, with the works in ink frequently informing the works in oil.”
Based mostly in Bristol, Naylor has a studio at Spike Island and presently teaches at London’s Royal Drawing School. You will discover extra of his landscapes on Instagram.
“Inexperienced Goddess” (2023), ink on paper, 51 x 66 centimeters
“Satan’s Cauldron” (2023), oil on linen, 115 x 105 centimeters
“Mountainside” (2022), ink on paper, 51 x 66 centimeters
“Phosphorescence” (2022), ink on paper, 51 x 66 centimeters
“Catkins and Crocuses” (2023), ink on paper, 51 x 66 centimeters
#ink
#landscapes
#Max Naylor
#oil painting
#painting
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