Vanity No.1
Wayne Sleeth65 x 54 cm | 25 x 21 in
Original painting in acrylic, oil and spraypaint on stretched canvas. The appeal of the subject was for me not the figurative beauty of a peacock but its potential for abstraction. Symbolically charged, l wanted - through the act of deliberately letting the paint run its course - to disfigure the figure to create a visual tension to the image; where does beauty end and ugliness begin ? Is not everything a question of vanity?
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Wayne Sleeth
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In 2024 Wayne Sleeth was ‘Invité d’honneur’ at two Salons des Arts in France, at Dieulouard and Dieuze, receiving a ‘Médaille de la Ville’ from the latter. He also had three artworks entered into public collections in France. Wayne has completed a 12-month personal project, which followed the 500 km of the Moselle river in the footsteps of JMW Turner in 1824. He has created hundreds of artworks to date, with a book – Mosel(le) – underway for 2025.
Currently based in France, Wayne Sleeth is a painter of personal discovery, composing a work to his own evolving rhythm. Perceiving the act of painting a complex composition of hidden memory. Sleeth chooses to form open-ended ‘scapes’, whereby memories are shaped as inviting sensations. Landscapes and skylines become abstract forms, while emotive representations gain tangible presence.
