Selected Exhibitions
“Windmill hill”, Incubator solo show, London chiltern St, 2022
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Archie Boon was raised in the town of Saffron Walden, a bucolic environment that has provided the inspiration for many of his paintings. Moving to London to study Fine Art Painting at Camberwell College of Arts, the gardens and allotments of his childhood have continued to influence his work, as he searchingly abstracts the natural landscape with muted colour palettes and dynamic full-body brushstrokes.
‘Windmill Hill’ brings together twelve paintings of the area in Saffron Walden that reveal the elemental energy of the natural world through the changing seasons. With intuitive splatters and moments of unbridled painterly gesture, Boon’s canvases seem to release the dormant energy pulsating in winter vegetation, and later celebrate the bursts of colour and vitality that comes with spring. This rigorous exercise of capturing both the consistency and chaos of nature’s rhythms is evoked through Boons’ masterful balance of figuration and abstraction.
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Archie Boon (b. 2000) is an artist currently based in South London, and studies Fine Art Painting at Camberwell College of Art. Having grown up in the town of Saffron Walden whose pastoral and bucolic environs have provided the inspiration for many of his paintings, Boon closely abstracts the natural landscape with an increasingly muted colour palette and dynamism in his brush strokes.
“My current body of work has seen a massive reduction in colour and representational forms and has in turn become an outlet for recording feelings responding to a period or place. My works aim to show a trace of humanity, and act as evidence of time/work/process that has been rendered onto canvas. The work has become more introspective; getting information down onto the surface of the painting through large amounts of paint carving out the surface of my thoughts. This body of work has been made in response to my last show “Windmill Hill”.