{"id":21429,"date":"2022-03-23T18:12:03","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T18:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/?p=21429"},"modified":"2022-07-06T12:24:44","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T12:24:44","slug":"work-of-the-week-happy-hippie-home-by-ed-saye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/work-of-the-week-happy-hippie-home-by-ed-saye\/","title":{"rendered":"Work of the Week: Happy Hippie Home by Ed Saye"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“This work is an expansive pause between here and there, now and then, peppered with patches of luminescence.<\/em>” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Happy Hippie Home by Ed Saye, \u00a33,250 <\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The creaturely and the mystical, the alien and the terrestrial co-exist in a medley palette distinctive to Saye\u2019s<\/a> works. From a distance, the composition thrums, muted by the harmonising of the colours; up close, the vividness of certain tones are apparent, a brighter note. There\u2019s a lot going on in this painting \u2013 in terms of technique, ambience, and representation \u2013 but it isn\u2019t busy. Instead it inhabits a quiescence drawn from the balanced forces of expectation and retrospection. Ed Saye describes his works as \u201ccontemporary visions of paradise lost\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The dwelling places \u2013 here an exquisite glass house \u2013  that populate his paintings speak to utopian aspirations, paradise projects both lost and ongoing, as those dreamt up by that pinnacle cultural achievement, modernist architecture, as well as hippie counter-culture. Both are seen in relation to the natural world: the signature plant life of Saye\u2019s works rendered in fulsome silhouettes. Peter Doig\u2019s transfiguring landscapes and Stefan K\u00fcrten\u2019s architecture-based compositions, mingling man-made structures with nature, are both contemporary resonances with Saye\u2019s works. This work is an expansive pause between here and there, now and then, peppered with patches of luminescence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ed\u2019s distinctive works, creating an indelible atmosphere, have been on display almost every year since he graduated from the Slade in 2009. In his solo show, No Promised Land<\/em> , in London 2016 the work put reviewer Paul Carey-Kent to \u201cin mind of the famous characterisation of the 1960\u2019s: if you can remember them, you weren\u2019t there.\u201d Ed is one of our Master artists, and a particularly investable<\/a> one.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Words by Maggie <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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