michael calver

 
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Title: Let Go a Music
Acrylic on canvas 60x72ins.

Title: Titanate Shift 1
Acrylic on canvas 28x32ins.

Title: Too Red to Die
Acrylic on canvas 28x32ins.


Most paintings have a similar construction: a symmetrical layout and a central rectangle differentiated from the surrounding colour field by a slight change in tone or hue which establishes a colouristic expansiveness. My concerns over recent years have been with devising peripheral optical effects and a virtual colour presence through contrast and the ordering of interval. Each painting has its own colour harmonies which carry an affective particularity.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITION

2006 'Silent Moves' Brewhouse Gallery, Taunton (Illustrated Catalogue)
2004 'Primary Ghosts' Exeter Phoenix, Exeter

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2006 'Full Spectrum' Sherborne House Gallery, Sherborne
2006 NSA Critics Choice (Nicholas Underwood) Campden Gallery, Chipping Campden
2005 Galerie Artlantis (3 person show) Bad Homburg, Germany
2003 'Brilliant Corners' Newlyn Art Gallery, Newlyn

AWARDS
2007 Pollock Krasner Foundation. Grant
2005 Arts Council. Grants for the Arts
2003 Arts Council. Grants for the Arts
2002 Arts Council. Training Bursary