Mike Becket has an innate love of colour, and is drawn towards painting
those subjects where the use of colour can transmit a sense of bright vibrancy
and illumination that one can get from life. Painting figurative scenes
that are interpreted through the imagination. Recent pictures include
scenes of seascapes and landscapes, an extended series on swimming pools, the
theatre and café culture.
ARTIST STATEMENT
‘I discovered some years ago a technique of painting onto the
reverse of clear acrylic perspex, which lends the pictures a vibrancy hard to
achieve by other means. This then evolved into using several sheets of painted
acrylic and layering them together. There are areas on each layer with no
paint, allowing the other layers to show through, and creating shadow to the work.
These are encased as one so that each work has a literal as well as painted
depth. An interesting aspect of working in this way is that each picture
appears slightly different according to the angle of view. They become
multi-dimensional “pieces” rather than just existing within a conventional flat
space. I also paint conventionally using acrylic on paper. These
tend to be landscapes or still life subjects’
Acrylic perspex works vary from 20 cm up to 3 m square.
Acrylic on paper works are framed in deep box frames.
Sizes varying from smaller pictures 20 cm square, up to 1 metre
square.
Any commision requests please contact mikebecket@hotmail.com