THIS COLLECTION REPRESENTS THE COLLATION OF THE ARTIST’S WORK OVER THE LAST 18 MONTHS, AND CONSISTS OF A NUMBER OF THEMES INCLUDING:
‘THE FIGURE’ – PAINTINGS OF THE HUMAN FORM, ‘THE URBAN LANDSCAPE’ - PAINTINGS OF AREAS IN AND AROUND THE CITY OF BIRMINGHAM, ‘EMPTY SPACES’ – PAINTINGS OF OLD ABANDONED WAREHOUSES AND FACTORIES, ‘THE STILL LIFE’, AND ‘MOROCCO’– PAINTINGS OF THE STREET MARKETS OF MARRAKECH. WHAT CONNECTS THIS WIDE RANGING BODY OF NEW WORK IS THE ATTENTION TO DETAIL AND TECHNICAL APPROACH TO EACH PIECE, PAINTED WITH THE QUALITY OF LIGHT THAT COLLECTORS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD HAVE COME TO EXPECT FROM THIS ARTIST.
THIS IS THE FIRST MAJOR COLLECTION BY RICK GARLAND TO BE SHOWN IN THE UK SINCE HIS SELL OUT BIRMINGHAM SHOW IN EARLY 2011.
