Ruby Lips Painting - 150cm x 100cm by Paul Gleave. Acrylic on stretched canvas. AUD$1,750 inc GST
This painting is available for purchase. Painted by Paul Gleave, this painting has been painted in acrylic and finished with varnish on a custom made gallery stretched canvas. Paul Gleave is a visual artist based in Brisbane, Australia.
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Originally from the UK, Paul Gleave studied art at Newcastle College of Art & Design in Newscastle-Upon-Tyne, England. He then moved to London to start a career in Advertising as a freelance Commercial Concept Illustrator for London based Advertising Agencies. This essentially saw him producing concept style marker renderings for TV Commercial storyboards, as well as other media, to be used by Advertising Agencies to pitch their campaign to their clients. Following that, Paul moved on to a role at a photo library in London producing digital artwork. During this time Paul spent his spare time painting landscapes and realism paintings and sold these paintings in exhibitions throughout the city of London and in the North-East of England. In 2002, Paul moved to Australia with his wife and 13 month old son. Paul admits to not re-visiting his painting career for a few years from about the year 2000 to 2005. It was around this time that Paul began painting Australian landscape scenes, but he quickly started to move his art into abstract works, citing the sunny Queensland climate and vibrant colours as an influence for a more vivid, brightly coloured and more abstract way of painting. Paul married his wife in Brisbane during the Riverfire festival in 2002, so his first Australian Exhibition saw him produce a wildly colourful series depicting the Brisbane Riverfire festival with exaggerated buildings and paint flying around the canvas as fireworks, produced in a chunky, thick meaty style. This way of painting was a million miles away from his usual landscape work of the UK.
A successful exhibition resulted, and Paul continued to paint drawing from his time as concept illustrator. Concept illustration required the “appearance” of being quickly drawn and coloured, while accurately rendered (with prior drawings produced before the final concept drawing was created). This concept work presented itself as a lively, vibrant image of movement as if it had just been filmed. Paul has carried this forward into his artform, producing a series of Lips and Female faces that have been rendered in a semi-abstract style, with meaty lumps of paint thrown around to present the subject with life and movement.
Paul says that his subject matter, being lips and faces, as something advertisers frequently depict to promote their products; products that require the senses such as taste, or arousing the visual sense such as images that people find desirable, in order to promote their products. Paul paints lips and faces in sultry and lively ways, with vivid and exaggerated colours to accentuate their form.
Paul has had 3 exhibitions so far in Australia.
