Australian artist Jacek Wankowski exhibits work in both Australia and the UK. His work is inspired by my experiences as a Marine Biologist and builds on the abstract Modernist traditions in international art of the past 80 years. Wankowski is fascinated by the underwater world; the strange, fragile life forms that live there and the huge forces of tide and current that surge around them. He has studied them in depth via his studies in marine biology and his early professional life as a fisheries research scientist in Papua New Guinea and Australia.
I visited the Coningsby Gallery which is currently hosting a collection of his work. I found this painting which I really like as it really show the angular fetaures of a fish's scales and fins.
His work shows elements of marine life as he uses free flowing movement and texture. These painting sbelow specifically resemble the fluidity of water. As well as texture and movemnet he uses deep blues and greens, colours that are commonly asscociated with marine life.
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