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Contemporary Myth
By Raymond Wirick

Based in Wiltshire, Raymond Wirick BFA graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore Maryland . U.S.A. and has worked as a professional artist for over 20 years. During that time he has exhibited extensively in the U.S. as a painter, sculptor as well as art directing in the theme park and museum industry.

Raymond 's paintings explore the role of artist as myth-maker. Whether his canvases regurgitate existing beliefs as in 'Siren seducing a cruise-liner' and 'Agamemnon's last bath' or creating his own 'Man-God' and 'Universal Monstaur'. Truth as we know it and our desire to understand the world at all costs becomes fair game in his studio.

MOTORWAYS
By Raymond Wirick

Raymond 's 'Motorway' series is a romantic study in oils of contemporary landscape both urban and rural. Fleeting peripheral moments that often escape our detection are placed front and centre in this recent series of paintings. A sense of travel, motion and at times voyeuristic glimpses of the common place are captured on his canvas. Brush strokes blur with rain-soaked lorries speeding west-bound down the M4 from London at night. Grain elevators rise from the flat Illinois corn- belt like Manhattan sky scrapers.These visual moments journal and celebrate the after rush-hour commute home from the office and factory when miles disappear and drown to the sound of car stereo chatter.