I can’t explain the appeal of paint – it just gets me and I stand there gawping, jaw agape, occasionally uttering “ooohh” before remembering where I am (usually a public place).
Paintings by Jake Wood-Evans have been known to have that effect on me. His show at Unit Gallery was filled with lush classically-inspired oil paintings.
Yes, I get the grand master classical references, but for me the magic is in his application of paint The light, spaces and bare areas and their interrelationship. The whole point of course, is that this can’t be expressed in words. If it could there would be no need to paint.
