Tom Folwell
Man of the Land II
Acrylic on Board
775 x 1130 mm
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Tom Folwell’s exquisitely detailed ‘Man of the Land II’.
Light and shadow delicately build a solitary figure, at home on a textured terrain.
Through a sensitive palette, Folwell pushes captivating details of ‘the every day’ to the forefront, presenting the viewer with an engaging sense of a new reality, one that is much more vivid and precise than what the eye might normally translate.
Folwell achieves his hyperreal rendering of life through the use of pencil under-drawings, multiple layers of colour and a photographic depth of field. Texture, light, and shadow are thoughtfully rendered with utmost clarity, binding his subject together with it’s environment through a sensitive understanding of detail amongst ‘the whole’.
Tom Folwell is a contemporary painter capturing slices of New Zealand life with insightful and atypical compositions that subtly transcend traditional rural depictions.
Through a sensitive palette, Folwell pushes captivating details of ‘the everyday’ to the forefront, presenting the viewer with an engaging sense of a new reality, one that is much more vivid and precise than what the eye might normally translate.