FRED COPPIN

Based on the South Coast of England and working largely in oil paint, Coppin captures an evergreen sense of optimism in his work through a distinctive combination of amplified colour and playful forms. His paintings are ultimately tied together by an uplifting impulse to dissect, exaggerate and reassemble the world around us into its most hopeful state. This dreamlike quality is further heightened by a sense of flux between reality and the imagined through overlapping ideas, subjects, spaces and icons within the image.

 

Whilst his painting is most often representational and nods to great British painters, the careful integration of glitches, geometry and pastel tones offers a quality that firmly roots his work in the digital era.