Joseph Bucklow

Joseph Bucklow is a British artist, living and working in London. B. 1986 City & Guilds London Art School, MA Fine Art 2019. University of Glasgow 2010 Using imagination, memory and photography as sources of inspiration, my paintings capture lan...

Joseph Bucklow is a British artist, living and working in London. B. 1986 City & Guilds London Art School, MA Fine Art 2019. University of Glasgow 2010 Using imagination, memory and photography as sources of inspiration, my paintings capture landscapes, urban scenes and the people within them imbued with a strong cinematic and theatrical influence. The images tend to be brooding, half-seen poetic visions that blur the lines between nostalgia and history, theatre and reality. These semi-imagined settings are transmitted to the viewer and offer a glimpse into worlds that are at once familiar and unknown. The work evokes a faded recollection, but also the unease and dynamism of the unexplored, providing enough visual information for the viewer’s acquisition of bearings but opportunity for uncertainty and questioning. My painting features both an illustrative use of line and detail along with expressive and gestural brushwork, layered to construct these spaces within which the mind can dwell and hear itself echo. The images encourage the viewer to dwell upon the forgotten and mundane elements of our surroundings whilst elevating the sense of solitude and the peace found in seclusion and present an opportunity for the intensely private moments often experienced within a vast space.