THE CELLO PLAYER is an extremely fragmented rendition of a musician and his instrument, camouflaged against a background of browns, reds and ochres. Experimenting with textures, the canvas was carefully primed in order to mimic fur.

I intentionally worked the protagonists in a vague mirror image style so that they are seen as one. The music, transformed into shapes, flows out in abundance and fills the canvas in the same way that it may acoustically fill an auditorium.

Keith Balzan

 

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