Fred Felt The Love

Part of a series I refer to as 'personality paintings'. I was partly interested in pushing questions of ground and figure by making an apparent ‘body’ of the white ground over the surface and under-space of the silk support.
This is also a highly decorative series of work, which hopefully resists and courts the viewers desire to read into the surface of the painting, always snapping back to the reality of the painting’s dumb materiality while asking, if ironically, what might be felt. If emotions could have a look, these paintings give them the likeness of viscera. To relate such bodily presences and hint at their human forces, they make use of Modernist codes for the sublime or romantic, perhaps corrupted here as bathos and the camp of a by-gone era through its borrowings.