Wayne Sleeth

Painter and artistic educator, dividing his time between England and France. He works according to his "synaesthetic" experience of places lived, frequented, or visited fleetingly. Neither landscapes nor seascapes, the artist calls most of his compositions "scapes," an anagram of "spaces." Having traveled extensively, he has exhibited across Europe (London and the northeast of England, also Brussels, Berlin, Metz, Luxembourg, Stuttgart, Split ...) and non-stop in France for over 20 years. His works are found in collections - both private and public - across Great Britain, continental Europe, Asia, and the United States.

Since 2015, in France, the artist revisits the motifs of his "mentors" in painting, JMW Turner and Claude Monet, exploring the close links between the two, but in his constant search for renewal, he has almost abandoned brushes for more contemporary tools; spray paints, collage, and markers. The Cathedrals of Rouen, Metz, and Strasbourg are rendered in an astonishing, gluttonous, and original manner. There is a "double reading" in his achievements; from a distance, there is a classical concordance with the original source of inspiration, but the surface up close is strewn with marks, dribbles, and scratches of an urban artist reinterpreting the landscape and the world...