Nick Lepard's paintings feels like dreams, if only because you know the subjects are real human beings on some plane. Just that, from what you can decipher, they look more like shard collages. Dedicated shapes and colors act as composites for paintings that impart real personality and emotion. While the tendency is to blend to achieve accurate approximations of light, Nick somehow uses the clear ruggedness of his portraits to his advantage, and does so convincingly. For that rugged nature to remain so evocative, is impressive as well as startling. For eyes that seem to derive from cubism, one can detect an uncanny amount of pain, longing, and fatigue. Grotesque indeed, but also brilliantly honest and emotional. His artist statement is impressive, and is as follows: "In an increasingly digital world, painting perseveres as a low-tech but engaging art form. Through colour, scale and gesture, my most recent work celebrates painting’s physicality, both in terms of its application and its dependence on space in the real world. The images are bright and playful, but also macabre and grotesque. Form and space lack clear boundaries. The images rest between creation and destruction. They convey a kind of mortality, a symptom of the organic and non-digital." -Nick Lepard, September 2011 
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