At Plaza Premium Lounge Gatwick North Terminal award winning artist Joe Machine Nature celebrates a true love of the United Kingdom. Machine’s distinctive figurative style walks the viewer down paths into ancient woodlands, through fields with flowers in areas of outstanding natural beauty, favourite world heritage sites and national trails, such as Avebury Stones, Coldrum and Silent Valley.
The imagery depicts orchards, cherry blossoms, anemones, bluebells, prowling foxes, march hares, magpies, kingfishers and more. Each picture carefully studies the landscape, flora and fauna, throughout the seasons; autumn, spring, summer and winter.
This exhibition features varying size original acrylic on canvas colour paintings, alongside unique monochrome scraperboards; a form of direct engraving where black India ink is hand scratched to create a fine white china clay line.
“A striking feature of all series .... is that they share an immediately recognizable artistic language. Once you’ve seen a Joe Machine you will have no difficulty in spotting his hand in any other.” Edward Lucie-Smith, The London Magazine, 2021
JOE MACHINE
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“A striking feature of all series .... is that they share an immediately recognizable artistic language.
Once you’ve seen a Joe Machine you will have no difficulty in spotting his hand in any other.“
Edward Lucie-Smith, The London Magazine, 2021
Plaza Premium Lounge are proud to present an exhibition of new and recent artworks by Joe Machine, award-winning British artist, poet and writer. Entitled Nature, this ongoing series celebrates a true love of the United Kingdom. Machine’s distinctive figurative style walks the viewer down paths into ancient woodlands, through fields with flowers in areas of outstanding natural beauty, favourite world heritage sites and national trails, such as Avebury Stones, Coldrum and Silent Valley. The imagery depicts orchards, cherry blossoms, anemones, bluebells, prowling foxes, march hares, magpies, kingfishers and more. Each picture carefully studies the landscape, flora and fauna, throughout the cyclitic seasons; autumn, spring, summer and winter.
Joe Machine has lived an extraordinary life. Born 1973 in Kent enduring a troubled upbringing and exposure to crime; his life has been reformed through his artist practice and now settled in Somerset with a loving family. Machine has exhibited widely, notably at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool and at prestigious art venues worldwide. A founding member of the Stuckist Group of artists, known for their campaigns for figurative and traditional painting, Nature, is amongst many themes of Machines’ impressive oeuvre, including portraiture and mythologic paintings, such as seen in the Arthurian, Britannic Myths, Inferno and Genesis series. A major book was published by Petronivs, 2014, with essays by renowned author and art critic Edward Lucie-Smith. Machine’s works are dovetailed to the creative writings of Dr Steven O’Brien, whose poetry and prose create a harmonic symbiosis of brush and pen.
This exhibition features varying size original acrylic on canvas colour paintings, alongside unique monochrome scraperboards; a form of direct engraving where black India ink is hand scratched to create a fine white china clay line. Artworks are available for sale, with options for worldwide delivery. Please contact the Art & Lounge curators for any further information.
www.joemachine.co.uk / @joemachine_official
