Tom White

Born 1995, London – based in South London. My work is based on a long-standing fascination with people and portraiture, particularly how a portrait acts as a documentation of a certain time and place. I am interested in Hans Georg-Gadamer’s concept of “occasionality” and the representation of a person’s character as seen through the scrutinising gaze of the artist. I explore the materiality of paint, applying multiple impasto layers to create areas of brushwork where paint takes on corporeal qualities to give a more viscerally real sensation of skin itself.