RICHARD WINKWORTH Playing With Fire
10 November - 4 December 2011
The Cat Street Gallery is proud to present Richard Winkworth’s solo show, “Playing with Fire”, the title of which is itself a play upon the ancient medium of encaustic painting employed in his works. Predating oil and using a fastidiously controlled mix of heated beeswax, damar resin and pigment, the word encaustic is derived from the Greek, 'Enkaustikos', translating literally to "burn in with fire".
Winkworth’s intelligent and highly contemplative works in encaustics, and also oils, are a reflection of his extensive travels throughout Asia. His seemingly simple still life studies of one of man’s most early objects, the pot, are in fact drenched in subtle nuances of complex and vibrant layers of colour with extensive surface detail that manifest upon further study.
Richard Winkworth was educated in the United Kingdom, obtaining his Bachelor of Arts at Brighton University, followed by an M.A at the prestigious Chelsea School of Art, London. He has exhibited worldwide and his work is held is the corporate collections of Unilever, Xerox, Adam & Co and a number of private collections globally.
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