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His burning, vital brushstrokes exert a hypnotic effect, themselves echoing that driving impulse; densely, masterfully applied, they dance with abstraction but, ultimately, are too rooted in the world to cross the Rubicon into it.
Fundamental to Uglow’s work is the understanding that he, as the artist, is not cast in the traditional role of observer. Conversely, he is in and of the work, the conductor amid a tempest of paint, arranging the often-bewildering cocktail of the physical, the metaphysical and the emotional into an internal cohesion. For Uglow, paint is not the expression of …