Dale Inglis
Walk [2010]
Mixed media on panel
230 cm x 100 cm
Dale Inglis Friars Halt, Caldbec Hill, Battle, East Sussex TN33 0JS dale@wdinglis.net www.wdinglis.net
Dale Inglis
Cannon Street Hotel
Paintings 2010-2024
No Title [c. 1990]
Spray paint on steel mesh
72 cm x 102 cm
ARTIST’S
STATEMENT
The paintings represent an ongoing fascination with bridges and riverscapes.
Each panel has an earlier life history, which informs the preliminary stages in the development of the work, but ultimately may almost entirely be submerged. There is no tabula rasa. The unfolding of the process then involves painting and repainting versions of essentially the same image, alternating with layers of varnish, opaque paint, irregular dot patterns and text, created using decorator’s paint, oil colour, varnish, aerosol and biro. This can take months or sometimes years as each layer is allowed to dry and cure.The top layer is opaque white.The paintings are then subjected to a process of deconstruction, brought about by the use of paint remover, heat gun, blow torch, scraper and sandpaper.The layers of paint bubble, curl, shrivel and go up in smoke. The work proceeds in stages, combining both intentional strategies and chance. Sometimes the destruction is nearly total and the process of building begins again. The result is a rich surface bordering on the abstract, a palimpsest with tantalising fragments of meaning that nonetheless embody a truth about the subject matter, the painting process and the past. The painter has become an archaeologist.
Each layer is fashioned as if it were intended to be a finished piece in its own right. It also allows for experimentation and improvisation and the adoption of alternative painting personas. No record is kept of successive intermediate layers. Working on many paintings at the same time, as well as the protracted time scale involved, ensures that each uncovering is a voyage of discovery. It’s also a bit like seeing your life passing in a flash. It can be exciting but nerve-wracking.
The inclusion of several panels in a single work can be seen as a parallel to cinema. It involves endlessly repeated journeys, coming and going, and endlessly repeated tides, offering glimpses of a shifting and elusive reality.
It is also intended that references to particular light or atmospheric conditions be overridden by a deeper truth based on elemental colour, a radiant and vibrant surface and simple abstract divisions.
Some of the titles are from T.S. Eliot’s ‘The Wasteland’, in which Eliot returns again and again to the themes of cyclical history, referencing events and people which are the same and not the same. In the poem he describes a form of historical and personal erosion through which distinct attributes are blurred and reduced in the passage of time, but which also accrete and accumulate over years or centuries to create a larger truth.
DALE INGLIS
July 2024
Tide [2019] Mixed media on panel
198 cm x 228 cm
Untitled Drawing #1 [c. 2018] Oil on paper
70 cm x 100 cm
Untitled Drawing #2 [c. 2018]
Oil on paper
77 cm x 106.5 cm
South East [2024]
Mixed media on panel
100 cm x 180 cm
Bridges [2010]
Mixed media on panel
100 cm x 180 cm
[3 panels, each 100 cm x 60 cm]
Turn 1, Turn 5, Turn 4 [2017]
Mixed media on panel
76 cm x 180 cm [3 panels, each 76 cm x 60 cm]
Exodus [2013]
Mixed media on panel
122 cm x 244 cm
River [2010]
Mixed media on panel
100 cm x 244 cm
(Detail) River [2010]
Mixed media on panel
100 cm x 244 cm
The Chances [2024]
Mixed media on panel
194 cm x 228 cm
Cannon Street Railway Bridge [2012]
Mixed media on panel
122 cm x 244 cm
Untitled [2017] Mixed media on panel
122 cm x 244 cm
Phases Of The Moon [2023]
Mixed media on panel
198 cm x 228 cm
What The Thunder Said (2013)
Mixed media on panel
200 cm x 240 cm
(6 panels, each 66.5 cm x 120 cm)
Untitled river study No.2 [2024]
Mixed media on panel
62 cm x 92 cm
Untitled river study No.3 [2024]
Mixed media on panel
62 cm x 92 cm
DALE INGLIS
Born in Canada, 1946
University of Winnipeg, Canada, BA, 1974
University of Manitoba, Canada, BFA (Hons), 1977
Emigrated to UK, 1979
Byam Shaw School of Art, Post Grad Diploma, 1978
Selected Exhibitions
2024 Cannon Street Hotel Pullens Yards, London
2016
2015
The Sound of Water Art Space Gallery, London (solo)
Elisa Alaluusua Sketchbooks- Revelation Art Space Gallery, London
Speak in the Daylight St John’s Church, Waterloo, London Fire and Water Stowe
2014 The Fire Sermon Blackshed Gallery, Robertsbridge (solo)
2013-14 Artist in Residence, Waterloo Festival St John’s Church, Waterloo
2013 The River National Theatre, London (solo)
2012 Pullens Yards Open Studios Pullens Yards, London
Summer Exhibition Pullens Yards London
2011 East Sussex Open Towner Gallery, Eastbourne
Pullens Yards Open Studios, London Pullens Yards, London
Summer Exhibition Pullens Yards, London
2010 East Sussex Open Towner Gallery, Eastbourne
Mural Printworks, London
Summer Exhibition Pullens Yards, London
The Gallery Westminster School, London
Pullens Yards Open Studios Pullens Yards, London
2009 Summer Exhibition Pullens Yards, London
Pullens Yards Open Studios Pullens Yards, London
2008 London Architecture Fair London
Mural Millicent Fawcett Hall, Westminster, London
Pullens Yards Open Studios, London Pullens Yards, London
2007 Arts Unwrapped London
2006 Pullens Yards Open Studios Pullens Yards, London
2004 Langham Fine Art Langham, Suffolk
2000 Affordable Art Fair London
1998 Vital Art Atlantis Gallery, London
Out of the Garden 6 Chapel Row, Bath
Langham Fine Art Langham, Suffolk
1997 Carlton Gallery Westminster, London
The Hunting Art Prizes Royal College of Art, London
1996 London Group Barbican Centre, London
1992 Carlton Gallery Westminster, London
1988 Carlton Gallery Westminster, London
Collections
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada
Schloss Bellevue, Kassel, Germany
Mural works in the Barbican Centre, London and Westminster School, London
Private collections in Britain, Canada, Italy, Germany, Australia and USA
The Final Stroke Of Nine [2014]
Mixed media on canvas
107 cm x 147 cm
FRONT COVER (Detail)
The Violet Hour [2014]
Mixed media on canvas
107 cm x 147 cm
INSIDE COVER (Detail)
River [2010]
Mixed media on panel
100 cm x 244 cm
INSIDE BACK COVER
Cannon Street Hotel [2014]
Mixed media on canvas
138 cm x 116 cm
BACK COVER (Detail)
The Violet Hour [2014]
Mixed media on canvas
107 cm x 147 cm
Dale Inglis - Cannon Street Hotel
Paintings 2010-2024
Curated by Peter Wells-Thorpe [3003 Group] and Dale Inglis
© All images: Dale Inglis
© Text: Dale Inglis
© Photography: Debbie Sears
July 2024
