The past week I've been to a few interesting art exhibitions. The first was Peter Doig who was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2004 at the Tate Britain. He is also known for being Europe's most expensive living painter after a painting of his was sold at auction for £5.7 million. His work is highly sought after by the top private collectors around the world.
He paints landscapes mostly based on found photographs, although he doesn't paint in a photorealist style, and of his early childhood memories of snowscapes in Canada. There are also reoccurring motifs from the film Friday the 13th and of his experiences working in the theatre where he dressed up in the costumes with a friend. He is now based in Trinidad, a place where he spent some of his childhood, and is now an inspiration for his paintings.
His style has been described as magic realist and dreamlike due to his unusual colour combinations of glowing greens, blues, reds contrasting with pinks, yellows and white. So it's definitely worth going to the exhibition just to see the paintings in real life as the prints simply don't do them justice.
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