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How should a painting ‘hang together’? Isaac Aldridge takes our suppositions and splices them in these idiosyncratic paintings. Perhaps the use of colour is the way in to understanding them: rebellious, unexpected and uniquely coherent. Take ‘She Lured Me In And Swallowed Me Whole’. Beginning with this curious title we then meet a classical silhouette, which is calibrated to stand in relief against the background while calling into question notions of surface and depth.
The intense blues of this background demonstrate the signature commitment to visual pleasure in this artist’s palette. In ‘Fish Friday, The Fire in Our Bellies’ Aldridge again manages to combine irreverence with mythical undertones and emotional resonance; ‘Cut the Grass OK Fine’ uses a collage technique in painting to this effect. Leave your assumptions behind and know that fine art need not be without a bit (a lot) of fun.