Gareth Cadwallader is a painter of hyper realist scenes. His paintings are portals onto quiet and reflective moments, often featuring people going about their everyday activities. There is, however, a level of ambiguity in these highly detailed works. The scenes are open-ended and unresolved, and the viewer is left to draw their own conclusions. Intimate in scale and imagery, Cadwallader’s paintings are about absorption: the viewer is forced to get close up and pore over the canvas and the characters depicted are themselves consumed by their own private moment.
GARETH CADWALLADER (1979)
Oil on canvas over board
24 x 21cm
Acquired in 2019
