Fletcher Sibthorp is a contemporary figurative artist whose work infuses technical aspects of classical oil painting with a modern aesthetic, exploring the fall and play of light on the figure with a subtle narrative. Exploring the boundaries between representational and the abstract concepts, my work is shaped through traditional and contemporary practices. Incorporating a process of disruptive and expressive mark making, fused with classical painting techniques, my artworks evolve from a serendipitous application of paint, sand, wax and precious metals, creating subtle textured surface.
Fundamental to my work is the figure which I places in a variety of abstract narrative spaces which I ask my viewer to interpret. My latest works evolve around the idea of entropy; the gradual decline from form to disorder, to create and then destroy, then to build again using the elements of water, fire, air and earth. My approach is multi-layered, a slow building of paint and texture; to observe the ‘infinite smallness and bigness of things’ and to celebrate the ‘music of chance’ whilst paying homage to centuries old painting traditions.