CHARLIE CHROBNIK 

 

Working from memory, my paintings call attention to quiet yet poignant moments that explore themes of vulnerability, effeminacy, melancholia, nostalgia and loss. Visually translating an experience or quote is a common process I use within my painting, even down to translating collage and hyper edited photography as source material. During the process I let go of that material and I start to paint what I see in my head - the painting becomes gestural and imaginary in parts, this process means the work both mimics the digital whilst remaining painterly. Figures are solid and bathed in harsh light, colours are too fluorescent, realism deteriorates in parts into a kind of abstract bubblegum. Painting what was felt rather than what actually was is what I find interesting and so these aforementioned smaller moments become confronting. Memories and portraits overlap, imagined pink mould engulfs the canvas, a figure peers behind a curtain watching the outside world go by as they stand still. No matter how personal the work is it becomes about a universal experience in some way.

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Sotheby's Institute Made In Bed Magazine recently published an in-depth article on my work here 

 ​https://www.madeinbed.co.uk/emerging-artists/jmmcmjx1yvw9edviitsauisp1gu8nk 

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