#robinfootitt

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Robin Footitt, ‘This Chair is Acting’, 2013, oil on panel, 50 x 40 cm

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Robin Footitt, ‘Air’, 2013, oil on panel, 50 x 40 cm.

A closer look at Robin Footitt’s pair of ‘exposure monochromes’ Air (2013) which employ a technique of wipes and layers to construct abstract paintings from figurative actions prescribed underneath. The most recent development is to use a technique of bleeding between layers caused by the reaction of oil paint and permanent marker pen, causing figuration “resurfaces” in unpredictable ways.

Figuration is drawn from the surreal ‘Dream of the Rarebit Fiend’ by Winsor McCay first published in the 1904.

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Robin Footitt, 'This Chair is Acting' and 'Air', 2013, oil on panel, 50 x 40 cm installed at office corner in High Barnet.