"Doig, who was born in Edinburgh in 1959 but grew up in Trinidad and Canada, has created a relentlessly inventive and evolving body of paintings over the past 40 years. Informed by memory, Doig's own photographs and found images, an intimate knowledge and interpretation of art history, a profound response to place and architecture, and by images and moods evoking diverse cultural forms beyond visual art, his works possess a poetic and sonorous sense of feeling and atmosphere."
"Fundamentally concerned with figuration, Doig draws on a vast range of painterly approaches from resonant stains to thick impasto, stretching his medium to its full expressive potential and into the realms of abstraction. He has said that he wants painting to be a world unto itself and perhaps no other artist of the past few decades has created such a distinctive language for achieving that aim."
Peter Doig was born in Edinburgh in 1959, grew up in Trinidad and Canada, and has produced a relentlessly inventive and evolving body of paintings over forty years. His work draws on memory, his own photographs and found images, an intimate knowledge and interpretation of art history, and a profound response to place and architecture. Paintings are often realised over many years and remain unique rather than parts of series, even when sharing recurring iconography. Fundamentally concerned with figuration, Doig employs approaches from resonant stains to thick impasto, stretching painting toward abstraction. A passionate engagement with music shapes tonality and ambience, as seen in House of Music at Serpentine South.
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