William Monk

William Monk (1977, United Kingdom) is a painter who works in series, very often large oil paintings, with theme’s ranging from space to nature, from industrial- to cityscapes. The work is often abstract with only hints of figuration left on the surface. The colors are bright as to create a noisy disorder or a level of frantic activity, this functions as a camouflage to the deeper meaning or theme of the paintings; a returning duality in Monk’s work; between abstraction and figuration, light and dark, meaning and meaninglessness.