The paintings coming from british artist Ian Francis immediately caught my eye. Figures are set in environments of striking duality; backgrounds that are both architectural in form and atmospheric, suggestions of movement and stasis, solid and liquid, opaqueness and translucence. The shapes, lines, and color transitions are both abrupt and soft throughout these scenes. I love his fully abstracted pieces, as well as ones that bring a sharp focus to the human figure; figures that seem at once to be lost and completely at home in these created complex environments.
Below is one of his pieces and a detail of the figure in it.
Below is one of his pieces and a detail of the figure in it.
His website: www.ifrancis.co.uk
