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Tanker

By  Steven Ingman 2010 - 2011

Graham Lester George

Dimensions
75cm x 110 cm

Based on an abandoned tanker located in a quarry I played in as a child. I wanted a strong uneasy perspective of the tanker exaggerating the structural prowess of an unfamiliar object in the woodland. In this painting I considered the rotting/rustic metal finish making references to decay in the natural world. I also used light and colour to highlight the contrast of manmade and the natural world (the warmth of earthly colours against the contrasts of cold blues on the tanker). Tanker is part of my Wolf Gang series “Wolf Gang” Steven Ingman's paintings reflect on memories and self discovery influenced by retracing the steps of a former stomping ground. Close to where he grew up a mile down a beaten track hidden behind a wall of hedgerow is a deserted quarry. This forgotten place now overgrown and left to nature's devices, is a mixture of fens, marshes and swamps. The densely compacted trees, abandoned buildings and machinery offer a post apocalyptic landscape yet ironically this place offered a gang of kids an escape from reality. Now through adult eyes, Ingman attempts to understand a place he failed to understand as an adolescent.
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