Consequence (Details). Work in progress.
Oil on canvas, triptych
His paintings move between tenderness and unease; softness sits alongside distortion, intimacy alongside distance.
Artist Ash Fields is embracing a new chapter as a figurative artist, painting from personal experience of a cult upbringing, processing the consequences of choice and the physical toil of trauma. While he is immersed in a developmental stage, revealed on this page is a preview of the first under-paintings of a triptych that will become part of Fields' first true body of work.
His paintings use the figure as a vessel for vulnerability, grief, intimacy, memory, longing and lingering bruises of experience. His liminal compositions merge family photos, gods, personifications and self portraiture. Creating images that feel instinctive and open, meaning can be sensed before it is understood.
Fields draws on the history of figurative painting while looking for a language that feels immediate and personal. The body becomes both subject and landscape: stretched, folded, obscured, fragmented or held together through gesture. Faces may disappear, forms may dissolve, and figures overlap or emerge from one another, allowing emotion to exist beyond facial expression or narrative. His paintings move between tenderness and unease; softness sits alongside distortion, intimacy alongside distance.
The paintings are ultimately about connection — between bodies, between memory and the present, and between what can be expressed and what remains beyond language.
Consequence. Work in progress.
Oil on canvas, triptych
35 x 64 in, 70 x 78 in, 35 x 64 in.