TRAVERSING THE CANOPY by Will Barras
Medium: Original - Inks and spray paint on canvas
Year: 2020
Size: 79cm x 79cm
Singed
Words from Barras about this piece;
“I remember reading a book called Ozone by Paul Theroux and was also thinking about how we are encroaching on nature, jungle being cleared for expanding cities. I was considering an indigenous figure looking up at another figure looking down, like she lives in the canopy, maybe waiting for a flying car.”
Will was a significant contributor to the street-art scene in Bristol in the 1990's and co-founded the influential Scrawl Collective. Barras' paintings are characterised by a distinctive mix of dynamic shape composition and pulp story film still-evoking figuration. The urban weapon of spray paint is in the mix, when wet acrylics produce aquarelle effects as a basic layer for an inventive use of negative space.
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