AKEHURST CREATIVE MANAGEMENT

Most of these photographs are concerned with an exploration of that heightened and intensified scrutiny we sometimes bring to bear when looking, for example, at paintings in a gallery or in a book of reproductions. I am continually drawn to late mediaeval Flemish painting with its supreme technical facility, brought about by the introduction of oil painting. Jan Van Eyck, in particular, exploited the new medium in his pursuit of that intense naturalism which Norman Bryson has termed "a surplus of appearance"... That sustained, concentrated gaze is what continues to fascinate me: in painting the world and its objects with an unswerving attention to every detail, looking becomes a kind of celebration, a type of meditation on sight and seeing... 'A refined and visionary photographer, Paul Kilsby transcends the confines of different epochs in his exploration of our common cultural past. Graced by the magic of his perfect technique, his highly original photographs fuse their sources to..

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Primary location: London United Kingdom