James Bland Exhibition

September 27 - October 27, 2017

James Bland on the other hand is a traditional British painter who was trained academically, and was the 1st prize winner of the Winsor & Newton oil painters award in 2013. His work is all about the figure. He creates movement, ambience and yet, by the body language one can’t tell what is happening which is something most painters cannot communicate. James Bland is absolutely creating a whole different type of energy. His figures indicate mood, arguments, tensions and feelings in a room with usually one or more people. These figures are always about the human condition, they are eating, at a table or are involved with some sort of activity. Even his single figures have motion and have an amazing energy. All his work is done in the interior, in a contemporary setting. Bland is a master at interpreting human emotion and feeling. Much of his work is displayed with a sensibility of no understanding what the people are doing in the images and the viewer is left to try to figure out what is going on.