Sobre el artista

Tony Squance (Evensham, Reino Unido 1964) es pintor y dibujante. Vive y trabaja en Madrid desde 1990. Comezó en la pintura a comienzos de los años noventa y su primera exposición individual tuvo lugar en 1998 en El Gayo Arte de Madrid. Desde entonces ha expuesto en varias galerías en España y ha participado en exposiciones y ferias de arte en Reino Unido, China, Sudáfrica y Chile, entre otros países.

 

Sobre si mismo
I struggle to make sense of the world around me by creating simple images, using a "hands on" approach.
Everything I do, without exception, is about the use and subsequent modification of impulses, usually through the medium painting and drawing.
I tend to work around the edges of the traditions of the human figure, the anonymous portrait, landscape, abstraction, exploring the boundaries between these genres. Each exploration is unfinished and is usually returned to later in a different way, often after a long absence.

Sobre su modo de pintar
I use brusque movements to construct images. followed by periods of rest and appraisal, then partial or total destruction. Destroying and re-building is key.

Sobre sus utensilios
I deliberately use tools which are difficult to control, tools such as oversize charcoal sticks, crude Chinese glue brushes, black or white acrylic paint. I also use fluorescent light, crude scale models, my own digital photographs, editing programs, deep zooms and lo-res digital video.

Sobre la obra de arte  
I am attached to the impossible notion of a work of art being a one-on-one map of the exact seconds lived. I aim to get as close to that idea as possible.