Taking the theme from the ‘Still 4’33’ project and using the images recorded during the event I want to explore the images further through paint. I want to try an capture the greyness of the environment highlighted with bright colour of the buses and clothing. I would like to try and achieve this in a very ‘painterly’ fashion with loose brush work and non descript figurative detail whilst moving away from my previous fixation of 20x20cm square canvas’.
One of the influences behind this is the work of the French photographer and pioneer of street photography Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004). Cartier-Bresson was a pioneer of the genre of street photography and viewed photography as capturing a Decisive Moment.
and also by work by polish painter Wilhelm Sasnal (b.1972) who paints in a simplistic block style from historical photographs and images taken by himself.
Michael Palmer 