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Carl Arroyo ‘Suddenly everything feels intensely strange as the past and present slip into a space where memory and consciousness, certainty and uncertainty, isolation and connection shift to form something new without signifiable meaning but emotion, emotion impelling gesture.’ Despite my painting’s disorderly scattering of marks, doodles, motifs, half legible cryptic references, and asemic text, (writing without alphabet) they are a coherent collection of exuberantly executed work that explores the interaction of texture, composition, form and palette. When painting I embrace a form of 'optimistic uncertainty' which helps to generate work that is emotionally expressive, playful, bold and energetic. The paintings are paradoxical in nature, uncompromising yet approachable, vibrant yet dark, and sincere yet flippant. The work incorporates heavily patinated, mixed-media imagery created through a process involving the application of layers of overpainting, collage and expressively scrawled and scratched marks. Being the son of a Spanish Civil War refugee my evolution as an artist draws on my radical Spanish heritage and the influence of post Spanish Civil War artists, including Antoni Tapies and the lesser known, but influential, ‘El Paso’ (The Step) group. I also draw inspiration from the ‘Situationists’ provoked punk and post punk ethic of the late 1970’s and early 1980’s, whose counter cultural movement inspired a broader grassroots creativity opposed to the nightmare of consumerist excess and passivity.
Education 1985 - 1989 Bradford Art College - BA Art and Design. 2005 - 2008 Derby University - MA Art Therapy. In 1989 Carl Arroyo completed his degree in Art & Design at Bradford Art College and then went onto establish himself as a ceramicist with workshops in the Wye Valley. In 2004 Carl began painting and when he isn't painting he practices as an Art Psychotherapist. Solo and Group Exhibitions 2021 The MADE Gallery, Cardiff. 2019 The Drawing Room Gallery, Hay on Wye, Herefordshire. 2017 The Lansdown Gallery, Stroud, Gloucestershire. 2017 The Riverfront Arts Centre, Newport. 2015 The Catto Gallery, London. 2015 The Lansdown Gallery, Stroud, Gloucestershire. 2014 The Lawrence Alkin Gallery, London. 2014 The Art Shop, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire. 2014 The Shellhouse Gallery, Ledbury, Herefordshire. 2014 108 Gallery, Harrogate, Yorkshire. 2013 Star Anise Gallery, Stroud, Gloucestershire. 2013 The Shellhouse Gallery, Ledbury, Herefordshire. 2012 The Art Shop, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire. 2011 The Art Shop, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire. 2010 The Art Shop, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire. 2009 Featherstone Fine Art, Ross on Wye, Herefordshire. 2008 Derby University, Derbyshire. 2007 Derby University, Derbyshire. 2005 The Hat Shop, Presteigne, Powys. 2004 The Grange, Market Drayton, Shropshire. 2004 Gallery 54, Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire. 2004 The Art Shop, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire.
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