Wayne Sleeth

Wayne is a British artist now living in the Lorraine region of France. Through his practice Sleeth reiterates and re-explores the source and schema of his more formative sensations; the big skies above the flat lands of both the Lincolnshire coast of his father and the polders of maternal Flanders, where he also spent his childhood. The Lorraine region for this confirmed European is not only geographically strategic, but offers an echo of that very play of horizontality and verticality where the artist draws freely on “l’espace” as he knows and feels it, as far as the canvas edge…

For now Wayne describes his conversations as follows: "From here in france my daughter and l are progressing nicely on our 'conversations', high in colour in fact, and l'm sending on a few snapshots of work in progress. As we're working page-by-page like a pair of squash players there are some interesting ricochets and repeat shots, and tensions are there too! "