About

Daniel Crews-Chubb’s paintings combine powerful visual archetypes, familiar throughout human history, Gods, mythical characters, nudes, beasts, trees and chariots. These characters are rendered in mixed media works that typically incorporate drawing, collage and painting. They embody a search for the authentic, the raw and the unrefined, and are subtly influenced by consumer culture, modernism, antiquity, ethnographic sculpture and the history of mark-making, from cave painting to expressionism.

His repetition of figurative motives becomes a vehicle for exploring the act of painting itself, …