Home Away From Home

30 April - 29 May

Exhibition of paintings by Thompson Hall
Co-comissioned by HOUSE/Outside In

Painting by Thompson Hall showing modern building in purple and yellow set on a green foreground against a deep blue sky. More modern office buildings are in the background.

Thursdays – Sundays: 10am - 5pm
Bank Holiday Monday 2nd May 10am - 5pm
Late Night Thursday 27th May to: 8pm

FREE

Thompson Hall works intuitively in a variety of media, specialising in acrylic paint and pastel. His work begins with observational sketches from the urban landscape, providing the basis for artwork that depicts the world as seen by Thompson. He is concerned with colour, shape and texture over representation. Rather than an accurate re-creation, he prefers to convey a mood with carefully mixed colours chosen to capture a visual equivalent to a particular emotional or spiritual state rather than depicting true-to-life colours.

In this newly commissioned series, Thompson wants the paintings to: “give the feeling of being somewhere else, besides your home, and the mixed emotions this creates”.

Thompson has reimagined views from his home in North London and views from his visits to Brighton and the renowned Regency Town House where this exhibition is presented.

Thompson draws inspiration from the expressionistic paintings of Chaim Soutine, and like his fellow Camden artist Frank Auerbach attempts to resolve his personal experience of the world through painting. He is also influenced by contemporary culture, especially the dreamlike sequences of the 1981 film An American Werewolf in London.

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