Gary Hume

Gary Hume is renowned for paintings distinguished by a bright colour, simple forms and shapes and flat areas of colour. Hume's paintings have always emphasised surfaces (he uses gloss paints) and simplified forms. Throughout the mid 1990s he incorporated images from popular culture, making portraits of celebrity figures such as Tony Blackburn, Kate Moss and Patsy Kensit.  He also produced the 'Water Paintings', large-scale works of multiple, overlapping line drawings of nudes punctuated by flat areas of colour. Hume's choice of colour (flat colour) and outlined shapes has influenced my final movement painting. Both images above are figurative. The image on the left is called "Water Painting" and shows a repeated image of a figure, similar to my movement drawings. The image on the right is called "Baby Lucas" and shows silhouetted flat colour.