Jon Gidlow

Joined Artfinder: March 2017

Artworks for sale: 40

(8)

United Kingdom

Updates from Jon Gidlow's studio

  • Portrait Experiments

    Portrait Experiments

    I have been working hard in the studio to develop different ways of painting edges and how varying the texture of the surface plays with them. A great way to do this is with a self portrait as the model always turns up and doesn't mind it if the session runs over. In this portrait I was exploring being absorbed in a painting and literally dissolving in to the painting surface and it made it through to the final selection stages of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters exhibition.

    04 November 2019
    Royal Society of Portrait Painters

    Royal Society of Portrait Painters

    2018 was a great year for me in the Royal Society of Portrait painters Exhibition at the Mall Galleries. I had two portraits in the show and sold one of them! Many thanks to everyone who spoke to me at the preview and visited while the Exhibition was running.

    26 October 2019
    Portrait Experiments

    Portrait Experiments

    I have been recently adding some geometric shapes to my portraits to play with the feeling of space surrounding and interacting with the sitter. This is a painting done from life at my friends studio that I painted in a representational style and then added shapes and textures on top of

    26 October 2019
    Final stages of a portrait

    Final stages of a portrait

    This is me starting to put some drippy textures in to the latest portrait at the studio

    13 May 2017
    What is on my easel at the moment

    What is on my easel at the moment

    I'm in the mood for small quirky still life set ups at the moment.

    24 March 2017