A heady mix of cultural memory and dream

From his traditional training in the crafts of painting and drawing, Gary Saunt has become an exponent of Digital Painting in recent decades. This modern media seems conducive to his complex compositions and still preserves his original naturalistic style.

His large figurative works are populated by vivid fragments of our contemporary culture. Your local streets are haunted by a presence of intriguing objects, half remembered strangers or perhaps celebrities. However, the realism of the painting dispels any chance of disquiet and invites you into a theatre of compelling familiarity.

Gary claims his work has no agenda or political message and that his actual subject matter is complicated enough:- composition, light/shadow, colour and perspective. Yet, laced with a heady mix of cultural memory and dream, his paintings clearly represent more than just an academic rendering of the things about us.

It’s deeper than art, it’s painting.