colin reid
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Colin Reids paintings are simple snapshots of everyday life which attempts to represent the way store and recall visual information and experience the world around us. His paintings are memories, translated into a sensory shorthand. These paintings are the representation of a memory unable to be fully recalled, with all detail diminished. They are suggestive, what is left are colours, feelings and uncertainty. A vagueness of memory which is our only connection to who we are, they inform us and influence our perception of future experiences. They question the basis of truth, and the fragmented construct of an individuals fickle perception.
"The images I paint are incomplete, "unfinished", suggestions of an insignificant event which has passed unnoticed or cannot be fully recalled. They represent lost memories, they are the blackout from a drunken night, a forgotten lovers kiss, the ending of a blurred dream, the hurt from a distant broken heart."
Colin Reids paintings are the realisation of this pretence. Like the illusion of film shattered by the projectors light and the dirty cinema screen. Each speck of dust or Coke stain which drips down the screen and interferes with the projection serves to remind us that we are watching a film and reveals the deception, the reality of the fraud.
"My paintings are the compromised memory, an interpretation in which all parts are included or all parts deleted accordingly. An edited account of events; a kind of meeting in the middle, in a no mans land."
Colin studied Fine Art BA (Hons) at Nottingham Trent University and Liverpool John Moores. He has worked as a Graphic Designer, Design Studio Manager for the icLiverpool (Liverpool Echo). He is a qualified Art teacher and works with children with special needs in Liverpool.
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 the lonely sea 100cm x 90cm, oil on canvas original, £650 |
 sunbathing in an ever smiling sun 100cm x 90cm, oil on canvas original, £650 |
 births marriages and deaths 60cm x 75cm, oil on canvas original, £350 |
 there is tomorrow and there have been many yesterd 60cm x 75cm, oil on canvas original, £300 |
 extraordinary tranquility of a fresh morning 60cm x 75cm, oil on canvas original, £500 |
 only the sensitive can be alone 60cm x 45cm, oil on canvas original, £340 |
 an unexpected gesture 60cm x 45cm, oil on canvas original, £420 |
 this moment you have in your heart 50cm x 60cm, oil on canvas original, £450 |
 grandmas hands picked me up each time i fell 80cm x 55cm, oil on canvas original, £390 |
 a stranger smiles 200cm x 100cm, oil on canvas original, £750 |
 the knowing of yesterdays 60cm x 45cm, oil on canvas original, £350 |