Mike Hoggett
This is the tenth year that I have been making grid-like installations of my paintings, a significant part of my art practice. The original idea came from seeing a bank of television monitors all showing different flickering images. If the grouping of the work appears to be over bearing and too intense, that is good. Enter a supermarket or walk down a busy high street on a Saturday afternoon and you are surrounded by noise, movement and visual stimulus. I am expressing something of this hustle and bustle, yet also want to draw you in to scrutinize individual paintings.
The paintings are built up in 3 or 4 layers in a very intense and focused way. I work on about fifty at a time. Each painting is a game of hide and seek, scraping back to reveal layers beneath, or perhaps covering these layers up over and over until I can get the thing to work. The paint is smeared, dragged, flicked, dripped and scratched into using brushes, knives, kitchen spatulas, window squeegees - in fact anything that can assist in manipulating paint on the surface.
Mike Hoggett 
Mike Hoggett 
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