Christopher Bagnall, Untitled (Skin Of My Skin, 2011
Christopher Bagnall is a 2nd year art student at the University of Lincoln. His work revolves around painting and the notion that a stranger is abstract. The idea behind this is to study complete strangers, of who contact with is highly unlikely, and produce very quick drawings. These drawings then become a focus point for painting. Through the application of thick impasto oil, a fictional narrative is formed around the stranger. The image is then scraped of and reapplied over an over again forming several layers that overlap to create an abstraction. This process, taken after painter Frank Auerbach, is a key part of the practice as it displays a constant observation within the work and the narrative changes with each application/reapplication of paint.
“To the non painter oil paint is uninteresting and faintly unpleasant. To a painter, it is the life’s blood: a substance so utterly entrancing, infuriating, and ravishingly beautiful that it makes it worthwhile to go back to the studio every morning, year after year, for an entire lifetime.”
J Elkins, What painting is.
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Christopher Bagnall
Crocodiles with a Second Skin Thrash 