Gideon Pain
My pictures derive from a delight in the world around. A play on the mundane and everyday reality we slip through on our way to somewhere else. They are about collective moments, some tragic, some euphoric, when the sharing of an experience gives significance to something unnoticed. These quiet revelations bind, nurture and reassure us in a world that quickly passes. Paint, in a digital age, is a slow inaccurate and clumsy medium, making it perfect for capturing and re- contextualising this fragile transience.
Education
1992-1994 Reading University MFA Fine Art Painting
1986-1989 Glouchester College Of Art Ba [hons] Fine Art Painting First Class
Selected Exhibitions
2015 ‘Below the Surface, two man show, Cambridge
‘Brentwood Stations’ Stations of the Cross commission , London
‘43 British Painters’ The Crypt. Marlybone, London
2014 ‘Paint Britain’, group show Ipswich Museum
‘Contemporary British Paining’, group show, Huddersfield Art Gallery
‘About Face’, group show, Swindon Art Gallery
‘A Day At The Beach’, group show, Waterbeach, Cambridge.
2013 ‘Moving on’ [one man show], Cambridge
East Contemporary Art, Ipswich
2011 Eastern Open, Kings Lynne
RSPA Fund Raiser, Mandell's Gallery, Norwich
2010 - 2011 Moment of privacy has passed, Usher Gallery, Lincoln
2009 Ovada Gallery Oxford
Hills Road Annual, Cambridge
2008 Inside View, The British Museum
Kettles Yard Open, Cambridge
Wysing Arts Centre, Inaugural Show, Bourn, Cambridge
Eastern Open, Kings Lynne
2007 Eastern Open, Kings Lynne
Ing Discerning Eye, London
The Sunday Times Watercolour competition, London
2003 Speed of Mountains, house gallery , London
Collections
Southend Hospital
Falmouth Art gallery
Swindon Art Gallery
Rudby Art Gallery
Priseman Seabrook Collection of 21st Century British Painting