CHARLIE CHROBNIK 

 

Working from memory, my paintings call attention to quiet 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 mind - the painting becomes gestural and imaginary in parts, this process means the work both mimics the digital whilst remaining painterly and 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 and are given significance.

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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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