It occurred to me whilst working on the first two shows honing, reducing, abstracting those curvilinear forms, burying entire paintings and layering to the point of confusion, that what I was doing had a parallel not only within my character but in that of the nation as a whole. Reserved, repressed, impassive, inscrutable and hard to reach,
I felt this connection could be explored more thoroughly.
I began to dismember articles of clothing with English connotations and incorporate sections into the paintings.
Coats, jackets, skirts, trousers, shirts, blouses and track suits are cut sewn and re-cut then drawn across hessian covered boards before being surrounded by or embedded in multiple layers of encaustic.
It gives me a wonderfully warm feeling to create these paintings and simultaneously underline the uptight, po-faced side of my character and country.
John Squire
December 2007
I felt this connection could be explored more thoroughly.
I began to dismember articles of clothing with English connotations and incorporate sections into the paintings.
Coats, jackets, skirts, trousers, shirts, blouses and track suits are cut sewn and re-cut then drawn across hessian covered boards before being surrounded by or embedded in multiple layers of encaustic.
It gives me a wonderfully warm feeling to create these paintings and simultaneously underline the uptight, po-faced side of my character and country.
John Squire
December 2007