Foulkes
An American (anti)hero
Llyn Foulkes has lived many lives. He has been a student, a soldier, a Disney designer, a painter, a teacher, an inventor. Stubborn as he is, he brings so much passion to his works that he seems obsessed with his ideas. When he was young, he invented the perfect way of depicting rocks, human flesh and… pork (as in ‘Pig’) - using only a rag! After a few years, he had the idea of drawing friends, political and religious figures, all mutilated, on wooden boards. After that, he began putting everything on the canvas. Foulkes’s works sit somewhere between collage and painting… a simple painting isn’t enough for him. He uses unconventional materials like hats, cotton and objects he has found, and which he combines in his works with pictorial interventions. What’s the result? A contemporary, ruthless, ironic and irreverent collage (as seen in ‘Deliverance’).
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An American (anti)hero
Llyn Foulkes has lived many lives. He has been a student, a soldier, a Disney designer, a painter, a teacher, an inventor. Stubborn as he is, he brings so much passion to his works that he seems obsessed with his ideas. When he was young, he invented the perfect way of depicting rocks, human flesh and… pork (as in ‘Pig’) - using only a rag! After a few years, he had the idea of drawing friends, political and religious figures, all mutilated, on wooden boards. After that, he began putting everything on the canvas. Foulkes’s works sit somewhere between collage and painting… a simple painting isn’t enough for him. He uses unconventional materials like hats, cotton and objects he has found, and which he combines in his works with pictorial interventions. What’s the result? A contemporary, ruthless, ironic and irreverent collage (as seen in ‘Deliverance’).
