Slideshow October Paintings Below
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After a year of strict figure painting Garnett stretches the figure and starts to paint from his mind and his sketchbook, using the light he has acquired from live models in the October paintings. This series is a hybrid of traditional painting, surrealism and the bridge that takes Garnett into his first Reconstruction paintings of 1997.
The artist continues to paint several of these figures a year as they have become important elements of the studio tapestry and inform other bodies of work. Recent sculptures can be correlated to the stretching of necks and limbs that distinguish the October series. This is arguably one of Garnett's most original bodies of work, although thes paintingss remain in the shadow of other series of works that have achieved commercial success. Garnett began to sculpt some of these figures along with the paintings and looks forward to bronze work with the right patronage. Collectors who would be interested in subsidizing a sculpture are welcome to make an inquiry.