Tony Giles
“My love of figurative art, life drawing and painting
has inspired the current series of playful explorations of the human form.
Using distortion, I blur the line between beauty and the grotesque, while still
retaining a sense of lightness and character. I paint from a range of subjects
- life models, classical masterpieces, conceptual ideas. I interpret all the
elements in my paintings from the way the light falls, poses struck, colour,
anatomy to personality. Using the texture of the canvas and thickly applied
gesso, I create layers of paint. In this way I feel I am “sculpting with light”
and creating interplay between colour, light and darkness”........TONY GILES
www.tonygiles.com.au