Dan Baldwin - A New Optimism

‘A New Optimism’, the latest collection by British artist Dan Baldwin, opens at Maddox Gallery Westbourne Grove on March 16th 2018.

Maddox Gallery has worked with the artist for several years now, and we are delighted to share his latest works with our visitors.

A New Optimism

A New Optimism was conceived during the turbulent months of the Trump election campaign and serves as the artist’s stance against a darkening global mood.

It also coincided with the artist swapping his small windowless studio of ten years for a new large sun-filled space, and embracing a fresh perspective of both scale and colour.

These new paintings reflect both the physical journey out from the darkness into the light, and a metaphysical journey characterised by an exciting new optimism.

“We have had to adopt fast to changes in both how we see ourselves and how we are perceived by the outside world resulting in a profound shift in our universal consciousness” – Dan Baldwin

A New Optimism features for the first time paintings on raw linen using deep washes of loose colour, children in forests and landscapes. Baldwin’s dreamlike canvases evoke ideas of nostalgia and memory, innocence and love, with a colour spectrum inspired by recent travels to the Greek Island of Lefkas and Rome.

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