Joe Fan: Weeping Tree

Joe Fan: Weeping TreeJoes approach to painting is quite unique. He claims to have no great purpose to his paintings, no common themes or concepts, but instead presents them as being pictorial and narrative, depicting various stories and concepts for the viewer to interpret. He is fond of playing visual tricks in his work, and often paints tongue in cheek, taking liberties with perspective and magnifying the scale of his images. The four lithographs made at Peacock Visual

Commissioned at the time of his solo exhibition at Peacock in 2012

"The Hinterland folio presents eleven signed artists' prints

Produced for the 'Word Order' exhibition

He only uses about twenty or twenty-five motifs

As with all the plates except 'A Highland Woman'

Picasso worked on the ‘347 Suite’ at the age of 86

Isle of Skye

The three layers of blue represent three different moments in time and the movements of the coastal line

Year: 1980

'Fraoch' relates the myth to environmental issues

So I guess they retain something

taking influence from what may ordinarily go unnoticed