JAMES WILLEBRANT
CONTEMPORARY PAINTINGS
Exhibiting Level One Open Gallery and ALL THE BEST EXHIBITION
The exhibition concentrates on memories I
have saved from my youth, not only on the familiarity of the buildings and
architecture that I remember but also with that certain sense of kitsch-comfortablilty symbolised by this
style of architecture that I grew up with and never really appreciated at the
time. It is only with the perspective of some years that we Baby Boomers have
come to a new appreciation of these icons of our youth - the homes we grew up
in, the neighbour's place, the house down the street where we played and
watched our first Television, the places we visited on our holidays……
With these works and throughout my painting
life I have always been attracted to unusual and nostalgic subject matter which
I love, and thus have always been aware of treading that fine line between Kitsch
and Fine Art.... Some of the subject matter that I choose may border on the
bland and anonymously peripheral initially, but my artistic challenge is to try
and make something special out of something ordinary and create a strong
emotional resonance for the viewer.
Artworks visual and lizst of works on application.
