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Louise Dear is, in her own words, “a painter with a simple ambition…to create beautiful paintings.” Her ambition may be simple but her work is far from it Dear creates her paintings through a plethora of methods, throwing, rubbing and pouring materials onto the canvas before distressing the work for an organic aesthetic, rich with spirit and brimming with beauty. Inspired by Japanese art both antiquated and contemporary Dear’s work is driven by colour, and the way in which it invades the senses, and her palettes are always intense and extreme, to electrifying effect. ‘Love Bomb’ depicts a shirtless man only his head and torso visible looking seductively out of the print, a pink grenade clasped in his hand. The image is backed by bright, rainbow coloured stripes, delicately adorned with a floral design. ‘Love Bomb’ is both a playful and beautiful celebration of gay culture, a subject to which Dear’s colourful aesthetic is brilliantly and poignantly attuned.
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