Daniel Crews-Chubb’s characteristic approach is two-fold. First, as he puts it, simply enough - ‘I chuck a lot of stuff at the canvas’. That is to say oil paint, ink, pastel, spray paint, charcoal and plenty of rough pumice gel, which has a gritty cement-like texture. He rarely uses a brush: application is by drawing, throwing, squeezing from the tube or smearing by hand. Second, he adds extra swatches of canvas as he goes along, so that a visibly layered collage results, breaking up the surface and incorporating variable degrees of finish – including patches of raw canvas which act as ‘breathing spaces’ in the generally frenetic activity.
Source: Choi & Choi Gallery
Daniel Crews-Chubb’s characteristic approach is two-fold. First, as he puts it, simply enough - ‘I chuck a lot of stuff at the canvas’. That is to say oil paint, ink, pastel, spray paint, charcoal and plenty of rough pumice gel, which has a gritty cement-like texture. He rarely uses a brush: application is by drawing, throwing, squeezing from the tube or smearing by hand. Second, he adds extra swatches of canvas as he goes along, so that a visibly layered collage results, breaking up the surface and incorporating variable degrees of finish – including patches of raw canvas which act as ‘breathing spaces’ in the generally frenetic activity.
Source: Choi & Choi Gallery
