Jon Pountain
My work focuses on everyday places, moments and journeys.
I try to recreate the feeling of light and space within each scene, in order to transport the viewer into the painting, as if standing there looking in. Everything is caught momentarily – in transience, waiting for someone to come along and continue the journey.
It is important to me that my work is reflective of the present. Because of this, I hope that it will in some way comment on a variety of aspects of our lives and surroundings.
I am currently working on new paintings which all feature bus stops as a main focal point. Acting as a bookmark for a journey the bus stop becomes the one constant, the fixed anchor which is set paradoxically against the flux of people passing by.
I use a digital camera like a sketch book; the paintings I create from these images are rendered in pastel on paper.
Competitions
Short Listed for the 2006 John Moores Painting Prize.
Short Listed for the 2007 Celeste Art Prize
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 Rainfall On The Horn Of Africa |
Hot Chillis |
Toxteth Night |
Paradise | Hoardings On Park Road |
Toxteth AQ |
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| Blue Bag On Smithdown |
Three Trees In Sefton Park | Along Speke Hall Road |
Spendwell | The Only Tree On Lodge Lane | White Van By The Green Mountain Store |
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| Red Brick, Yellow Bus Stop | Sunlight On Planet Pizza | Sefton Park, Two Trees | Marilyn |
Sefton Trees | The Lights Of Casa Pizza |
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| Berry Street |
Solitary Tree |
Crossing Upper Stanhope Street |
The Red Church |
Woodlands Near Cader Idris | The Corner Of Mulgrave Street |
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| Sefton Park, Overcast |
Caprice | Blossom On The Corner Of Mulgrave |
Colquitt Street | Sefton Park, Line Of Trees | The Snow And Ethel Austin |
