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Michael Forbes is an extremely accomplished painter, as is clear from
even a cursory examination of his work. Forbes was born and brought
up in a village in the extreme north of the Scottish Highlands, and has
been granted access to a poetic world all the more remarkable,
given his isolation. It is not always a comfortable world. There is
a deal of tension and of alienation in the strange events taking place
in the landscape of his imagination.
From an early age Michael Forbes had an overwhelming urge to paint.
Now an entirely self-taught full-time artist, Forbes's paintings are
an extraordinary visual record of his thoughts and dreams.
Often journeying into the subconscious, Forbes's work shows a magical
and playful, dream-like world.laced with humour.
"I had to hook the viewer with something humourous and then slowly they see the darker side"; explains Forbes. |
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