BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.1.1//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:3364@xyzbrighton.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20180428T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20180513T180000 DTSTAMP:20191122T041134Z URL:https://xyzbrighton.com/events/inward-sky-a-solo-show-by-sam-hewitt-at -dynamite-gallery/ SUMMARY:INWARD SKY - a solo show by Sam Hewitt at Dynamite Gallery DESCRIPTION:Following a sell out solo show at Dynamite Gallery in 2017\, Br ighton modern artist Sam Hewitt returns with a brand new body of work titl ed Inward Sky.\nFeaturing 10 brand new paintings in Hewitt’s signature s tyle\, a play with light and shadow\, the works look in on the general pub lic at low sunlight. Hewitt chooses his subjects based on autobiographical experiences\, applying his own story to their stance and circumstance.\nH ewitt commented: “The show title refers to the paintings of graded colou r upon which thoughts manifest in the form of ordinary people and their va rious motives\, assumed through movement and body language. Together they describe my internal experience around whatever issue is the title of each painting.”\nHeavily influencing this body of work is Hewitt’s recent trip to Marrakech with Panasonic. As with his earlier works\, Hewitt’s p rocess is informed by his photographs of people in their respective urban environments. The experience led to Hewitt incorporating warmer colours in comparison to previous works\, and with more information about the people pictured.\nCommenting on his process\, Hewitt explains: “I often paint over old works and the glimpses of previous layers create the exciting sen se of another level of experience to the moment represented. Inward Sky wa s informed by photographs taken in Morocco in January and take a different approach altogether. The first marks are definitive and need to be made w ith great care.”\nHewitt’s work connects itself for two specific reaso ns. Firstly the artist only uses four colours\, cadmium red\, cadmium yell ow\, monestial blue and opaque white\, so there’s always a strong visual relationship between any two of his paintings.\nSecondly\, each painting is in part a manifestation of the artist’s unconscious. This element cre ates profound connections between the works in parallel with the artist’ s emotions and life experiences.\nAt first glance\, Hewitt’s work is sim ply a representation of people and shadows\, however there are clues obser vable in the shadows of his subjects that reveal a different story.\nHewit t explains: “I’ve projected my own internal judgements onto the people and relationships represented. I consider the crowd to be players on the stage of my own personal psychodrama. These days my paintings are invariab ly about my own ‘shadow behavior’\, or ‘scripts’ in a Jungian sens e\, which refers to strategies adopted early in life that no longer serve me well. As a result the subjects beneath the obvious are often extremely vulnerable disclosures about myself.”\nFor example\, the painting ‘Was it Something I Said’ features a disconnected couple and refers to a rel ationship of Hewitt’s in which he didn’t talk openly about his feeling s. The resulting conflict caused feelings of loneliness on both sides and left the woman questioning herself.\nThe paintings on show range in size f rom 70x50cm up to 130x100cm. There will also be two A2 limited edition pri nts available and a limited edition box set of five A3 prints - all number ed and signed by the artist.\nINWARD SKY will be on display from 28 April – 13 May at Dynamite Gallery\, 13 Trafalgar Street\, Brighton\, BN1 4EQ www.dynamitegallery.com\n \;\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://xyzbrighton.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/ 05/inward-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Arts LOCATION:\, \, X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=\, ;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TI TLE=:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20180325T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR