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Tachist Studies:
1997
- 2001
The works in this suite of small panels were executed in thick oil paint applied with a painting knife. The use of direct mark making and the building up of successive layers recalls the work of the Parisian tachist painters in the 1950's.  There is often a landscape reference in these works and a tendency towards blurring the borders of realism and abstraction, as in the work of Nicholas de Stael, an artist who was an influence on this series.


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