THING WORLDS

THING WORLDS is an exhibition of small paintings by contemporary British painters. 
The selection of paintings has been made by Frances Woodley. 

The painters represented here are delighted and excited to be exhibiting in Art Spot Korin gallery and would like to extend their thanks and appreciation to Masahiro Kawanaka, the gallery's curator,for this opportunity.

All the paintings in the exhibition depict a thing, or several things, in an invented or imagined world. 
Sometimes it is enough for a painter to suggest a world through a shadow or a field of colour, at other times a more detailed setting is required. 

The familiar objects and imagined things in these paintings are sourced from buildings, models, trinkets, digital objects, literature or even paint itself. 
It is the implied scale of these paintings that sets them apart from traditional European still life painting(where familiar objects are placed life-size on a tabletop or shelf). 

The paintings in this exhibition may be small in size but they often suggest huge or ambiguous size and distance.
The painters are interested in making the familiar extraordinary and bringing unexplainable things to life through painting. 

Things are created here that do not exist in the world except in their paintings.

Dr Frances Woodley