An animator, puppeteer and video artist as much as a painter, Tom Thayer creates intriguing, rough-hewn forms from distinctly analogue materials. Callow Air’s Veil is stained, drawn and sewn on a ground of felt and monk’s cloth. Many of his creations turn up as set designs for his short movies: indeed, the present work appears to transcend painting, verging on stage scenery or sculpture. Tails and branches escape the picture plane into real space. A dreamlike atmosphere descends, as if we are plunged into the depths of the artist’s subconscious. ‘It’s not about making a work of art, but about the experience of exploring’, he says. ‘It all comes out of looking inward, as deeply as I can. The more personal something is, the more universal it becomes’.
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