From a series of studies of archive photographs from the nuclear tests at Nevada Test Site. Kristian Purcell, watercolour on paper, 2013
"You have to differentiate between memories. Are you going to them or are they coming to you. If you are going to them, you are wasting time. Nostalgia is not productive. If they come to you, they are seed for sculpture."
— Louise Bourgeois.
Kristian Purcell On the mast at Cardington, oil on board, 2010
Kristian Purcell, Musical Creativities, 2011 -commissioned for the cover of a book by Pamela Burnard.
Kristian Purcell, The Blue Angel II, 2009. Painted after an earlier version was stolen.
The Death of Sardanapalus (after Delacroix), 2009. Oil on canvas, 46 x 36cm.
Available. For contact see blog.kristianpurcell.com
Two Satyrs (afer Rubens), watercolour on paper, Kristian Purcell.
Kristian Purcell, Portrait of the Artist, 2005. Oil on canvas. For sale: see gallery.kristianpurcell.co.uk
Kristian Purcell, Product of Manuscripts, 2009. Oil on canvas, 30.5 x 30.5 cm. For sale: see gallery.kristianpurcell.co.uk
Detail from an unfinished painting No. 2 - From a series on Doom Town, Nevada.
Detail from an unfinished painting - from a series on Doom Town, Nevada.
After the raft of the Medusa, 2011. Pencil on paper. Private collection.
Painted as part of the first Bedford Creative Arts mini-commission, the painting depicts me after waking up from facial surgery that followed an unprovoked attack in the street by two youths with a knuckleduster in 2009.
Kristian Purcell - ‘He writes in his room, she reads him in her room’ (Juhana Vähänen), 2009. Oil on canvas, 60x70cm. For sale: gallery.kristianpurcell.co.uk
DFACE - Leah Kardos, from Bigo and Twigetti. Painting by me, ‘Unelma (Study for a dream).
