Roger Aslin - 'The City Revealed'

ROGER ASLIN

Roger Aslin's main creative focus during recent years has been painting, using photography as an integral part of the process. Having created a significant body of work, Roger has exhibited in a number of open exhibitions including the Royal Watercolour Society, the ING Discerning Eye Exhibition, the Art Gemini Prize, the Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize, the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours at the Mall Galleries, London and a solo show at the Hay Hill Gallery, London. He is a gallery artist at the Adam Gallery, Bath.

His practice explores two key areas – the figure and the urban environment .

During walks through the city he takes images on camera or phone, later to be refined and honed digitally in the studio before commencing painting on paper, board or canvas. The resulting works shows urban life in dramatic colour and shade, emphasizing structure and form. This further develops the 19th century idea of the Flaneur - the observer of contemporary urban life, the ultimate urban explorer, made the object of scholarly interest in the 20th century by Walter Benjamin, based on the work of Baudelaire. Honore de Balzac described flanerie as 'the gastronomy of the eye'.

Car Park Acrylic on canvas 122 x 92 cm, 2018

The Outsider Acrylic on canvas 102 x 76 cm, 2018

Gateway Acrylic on canvas, 76 x 102 cm, 2018

The Determined Women Acrylic on canvas 102 x 76 cm, 2018

Woman In Blue Dress Acrylic on canvas 75 x 50 cm, 2019

City Corner Acrylic on board, 62 x 82 cm, 2019

Level 1 Acrylic on canvas 76 x 50 cm, 2019

The Visitor Acrylic on canvas 76 x 50 cm, 2019

City Walker 2 Acrylic on board 67 x 47 cm, 2018

End Of The Concert Acrylic on canvas 76 x 50 cm, 2019

Sorrento Walk 2 Acrylic on canvas 76 x 50 cm, 2019

The Window Dresser Acrylic on canvas 50 x 50 cm, 2017

Neon Bar Acrylic on canvas 50 x 50 cm, 2017

Late Night (Covent Garden) Acrylic on canvas 70 x 70 cm, 2017

Departure Lounge Acrylic on canvas 50 x 50 cm, 2018

Reception Acrylic on board 50 x 50 cm, 2018

Selected Exhibitions • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

Society of Graphic Fine Art Centenary Open Exhibition, Menier Gallery, London, 2019 Premier London Exhibition, La Galeria, Pall Mall, London, 2019 Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours, Mall Galleries, London, 2019 ING Discerning Eye Exhibition, London, 2018 Adam Gallery Summer Exhibition, 2018 The Lightbox Open Exhibition (Group Show), Surrey, 2017 Art Gemini Prize Open Exhibition, Asia House., London, 2016 Hay Hill Gallery, Solo Show ‘Urban Narratives’, London, 2016 Royal Watercolour Society Contemporary Watercolour Exhibition, London, 2016 Guildford Arts @ Clyde & Co, Guildford, 2016 Art Gemini Prize Open Exhibition, Menier Gallery, London, 2015 Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize, Mall Galleries, London, 2015 The Lightbox Open Exhibition (Group Show), Surrey, 2015 McRae Litt Fine Art (Group Show), Vail, Colorado, US, 2014 ING Discerning Eye Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London, 2014 Art Gemini Prize Open Exhibition, London, 2014 Just Art Open Exhibition, Pall Mall, London, 2014 National Open Art Exhibition (shortlisted), Chichester, 2014

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Hay Hill Gallery (Summer Exhibition), London, 2014 ‘The Artist’ Open Exhibition, Nottingham, 2014 Guildford Arts @ Baker Tilly, Group Show, One London Square, 2014 No Naked Walls Gallery, ‘Urban Landscapes’ Group Show, Surrey, 2013 National Open Art Exhibition (shortlisted), Chichester, 2012 Cork Street Open Exhibition, London, 2012 Art Erotica Exhibition, Cork Street, London, 2012 National Open Art Exhibition (shortlisted), Chichester, 2011 Colomb Art Gallery, (Summer Exhibition), London, 2011 Royal West of England Academy, Photography 2 Exhibition (Group Show), Bristol, 2011 Cork Street Open Exhibition, London, 2010 Cork Street Open Exhibition, London, 2009 ING Discerning Eye Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London, 2008.

The Lightbox Open Exhibition (Group Show), Surrey, 2008 Cork Street Open Exhibition, London, 2008 Lautier Moores Open (Group Show), Cork Street, London, 2007 Orleans Gallery, Group Exhibition, Richmond, 2007

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