29 Mar Paul Balmer. Landscapes & still lifes
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Caldwell Snyder is excited to announce South African artist
Paul Balmer’s premiere solo exhibition in our Montecito
Gallery. The exhibition will feature a collection of his most
recent Landscape & Still Life paintings.
A balance of serenity and complexity characterizes Paul
Balmer’s recent still lifes and landscapes, with luminous
scenes that on further inspection involve intricate and
sophisticated relationships of pattern, color, and form.
Balmer approaches his compositions through a process
that continuously breaks down and builds up the image,
using tools and multiple layers of paint. Up close, their
highly textured surfaces are full of innumerable marks that
he achieves through a process of scraping, sanding, and
scratching. Yet from a distance, the surfaces give way to an
overall impression of softness and simplicity.
Blending reality with his unique interpretation of
situations in nature, Balmer infuses everyday objects
and landscapes with new dimensions through subtle
distortions and changes in perspective. He works intuitively,
constructing scenes by memory:
I prefer doing many
drawings from my imagination. This way I can focus on the
shapes, light, shadow, and composition while not feeling
tied to any rules of how things should be.
Paul Balmer was born and raised in South Africa and is
currently based in Connecticut. Caldwell Snyder Gallery
has proudly represented Balmer since 2001. His work is
included in many private and public collections including
Delta Airlines, Marriott Hotels Boston, The Queen Mary 2,
The Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Yale New Haven Hospital,
Bridgeport Hospital and Suffolk University. His work has
been shown in galleries in the U.S., UK, Holland, South
Africa, South Korea, and Australia.
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