Preview: Monday 22 September 5.30pm – 7pm
For Tom Wood, still life is less about objects than about possibility. Each painting begins with hand-built wooden panels, their subtle proportions shaping the work. Lines, clusters and fragments are tested, rotated, and rebuilt until unexpected harmonies emerge. Subject matter hovers on the edges, never fixed too early, allowing the work to remain fluid, experimental, and alive.
Colour is both “agitator and pacifier”, driving compositions with surprising juxtapositions of muddy greens, strident yellows, and deep purples. Forms shift between narrative and abstraction, always at the mercy of balance. For Wood, still life becomes a theatre of relationships – a constructed meditation on time itself: how things remain, and how they inevitably pass.
