Light will be entering the top floor studio space from above for one more year before the Stevens Building and the Painting department it contains moves to the new Battersea site this summer. Design is popular at the RCA, and brings in big foreign-student rates, so the building will be refurbished to allow that programme to expand.
But I digress. This light, usually thinned during my visit by cold winter rain and snow, I share with James Boyer, one wall west of me. James seems to live in the studio; in there early, leaves late. He looks to the whole Leipzig/ Neo-romantic stuff for inspiration, and individual artists like Jules de Balencourt.
Industrial decay he takes as a subject, but it is the paint that really dictates his direction. Works get painted all the time, then buried under a new work, much the way a factory may see many businesses before one finds success and sticks: remnants of the failures remain as an obscured base upon which a winner is finally constructed.
The paintings are not titled. The last few works are quite small.
need more? Other works of James' can be found here, in the monster Saatchi site.
1 comment:
Its all a lie :)
JB
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