Description

Gary Hume. The Cleric (2000). Edition of 300. Silkscreen in 6 colours and 1 glaze, printed on 400gsm Somerset Tub Sized paper. Produced by Coriander Studios, London. 94 x 69 cm (37 x 27 in). Signed, numbered and dated by the artist. £295. Gary Hume combines a passion for painting and a mastery of colour with a hard, cool touch. Starting with found images of familiar subjects - Kate Moss, a blackbird, some flowers - Hume transforms them into bold, semi-figurative abstractions. Though striking and easily seductive, Hume's work retains an uneasy tension, with his decorative vision offset by the desire to show an awkward, edgy kind of beauty.