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Originally from the Thames Estuary, Adam Bracey graduated from the University of Brighton in 1998. He has taught Art and Photography in universities, colleges and schools around Sussex for over twenty years where he has made his permanent home. The Sussex coast serves as the major inspiration for his work and he has never lived far from the sea. Exhibition locations have included Brighton, Lewes, Shoreham, London, Essex and Edinburgh.
Evolving from a more realist ethos, his paintings have become more concerned with the properties of oil paint than a faithful representation of a subject. The work has a real physical presence, with textures and surfaces that are not easily reproduced when the work is photographed. Although abstract in nature his work makes direct reference to real locations. The landscape is ever changing, altered by weather patterns, light and season. The paintings aim to reflect these natural processes as layers of paint evolve towards finished images, with interventions where paint is scraped away or more viscous layers are poured across the surface before another layer is applied.
His paintings inspired by the Cornish landscape experimented with the re introduction of a figurative presence in the work and this has become a recurring motif that provides narrative and scale to the work.
Adam's paintings often include structural references juxtaposed against areas of outstanding natural beauty. Recent travels in Europe provided abundant source material for his current works in progress.
Evolving from a more realist ethos, his paintings have become more concerned with the properties of oil paint than a faithful representation of a subject. The work has a real physical presence, with textures and surfaces that are not easily reproduced when the work is photographed. Although abstract in nature his work makes direct reference to real locations. The landscape is ever changing, altered by weather patterns, light and season. The paintings aim to reflect these natural processes as layers of paint evolve towards finished images, with interventions where paint is scraped away or more viscous layers are poured across the surface before another layer is applied.
His paintings inspired by the Cornish landscape experimented with the re introduction of a figurative presence in the work and this has become a recurring motif that provides narrative and scale to the work.
Adam's paintings often include structural references juxtaposed against areas of outstanding natural beauty. Recent travels in Europe provided abundant source material for his current works in progress.
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