Michael Tutton - Recent Paintings Exhibition

Hornsey Library is pleased to host a new exhibition of work by artist Michael Tutton. Michael Tutton  Michael Tutton started painting in the early70s. He lives and works in London but has spent periods in Bath, Somerset and Hertfordshire. He studied at the City & Guilds of London Art School for a graduate diploma in Conservation of polychrome wood, stone and plaster, but as far as his artistic output is concerned, he is essentially self-taught. He has always largely painted in oils but sometimes in gouache, latterly he has employed mixed-media including collage in some works. He exhibited at the Redbourn Studio and Gallery in the 70s; reviewed in the Arts Review, XXV, 1 and 2. Michael Tutton, Artist Statement My work is mainly in oils on prepared paper and panels with collage, I also sometimes use gilding techniques, gouache and polychrome pencils. I depict memories and scenes from my own experience, I use my own photographs extensively for subjects using collage, such as recording photographically the demolition of a block of flats; a research field trip to Medieval stave churches in Norway for a book I edited and trees and woodland. I am interested in Norse mythology and this is reflected in a number of my paintings, especially numbers 2, 5 and 8. I also combine multiple panels into single works, such quadriptychs in bespoke frames. Also of interest are woodland scenes, particularly fallen trees, which I photograph and subsequently paint either on prepared paper or panel. Some of the former I cut-up and incorporate into larger works as a form of collage. I am also an author and editor. I have published works on architectural themes and building construction themes throughout history: Windows, History, Repair and Conservation Second edition to be published in September; Staircases, History. Repair and Conservation, 2014 and Doors, History. Repair and Conservation. 2020 all as editor and contributor published by Routledge; Construction as Depicted in Western Art, From Antiquity to the Photograph, 2021 published by Amsterdam University Press.