Giant Heads
Nahem Shoa's Giant Heads oil paintings. Ordinary life becomes larger than life, icons of 21 Century urban life which transforms the individual into the universal. These massive images have mountainous landscape monumentality.
Shoa’s painting discoveries are through his ability to model with colour as well as texture. He has a profound attitude to colour and its relation to form. Each head, densely painted in high key colours with unsuspected power of chromatic analyses, manages to attain both distance and luminosity. 'Giant Head', Ben measures 180 x 150 cms and is from a series of large heads shown in various exhibitions around the U.K. from 2001 to 2007. Harlepool, Plymouth, Bury, Coventry, City Art Galleries and Museums.
Shoa’s painting discoveries are through his ability to model with colour as well as texture. He has a profound attitude to colour and its relation to form. Each head, densely painted in high key colours with unsuspected power of chromatic analyses, manages to attain both distance and luminosity. 'Giant Head', Ben measures 180 x 150 cms and is from a series of large heads shown in various exhibitions around the U.K. from 2001 to 2007. Harlepool, Plymouth, Bury, Coventry, City Art Galleries and Museums.
Artist Nahem Shoa makes everyone look big headed. On the eve of his latest exhibition, he tells David Whetstone what inspires him.
Cultural diversity is something he embraces with a passion.
Cultural diversity is something he embraces with a passion.
