Click on an image to see a larger version (opens in a new window)

Luke Skiffington’s work continues to reference natural and man-made environments alongside more ambiguous, abstract iconography. While his work is often based on particular imagery, the finished paintings accumulate other associations through the making process and how they relate to one another. The resulting images seem to want to exist in two states at once, content to explore an array of visual and interpretative possibilities.

In contrast to the larger works, recent watercolours take a more playful approach suggesting themselves as momento-mori, as ciphers or markers of a sense of loss. They operate like a chronicle or recording, a culmination of different times and ideas.

See more images at www.skiffington.co.uk

Born in 1977, Luke Skiffington graduated from Goldsmiths College, London in 2000 and completed an MA at Chelsea College of Art in 2004. Since 2000, he has exhibited widely and his work is well represented in public and private collections in the UK, France, Italy, Holland and Japan. More recently, he has undertaken residencies at Chateau La Napoule Art Foundation, France in 2005 and CAMAC, Paris in 2006. Forthcoming exhibitions include PURE:Painting at Ferreira Projects, London in February 2008 and a solo exhibition at The North Wall Arts Centre, Oxford in September 2008.