Paddy Hornby, now situated in South London based multimedia artist working predominantly in the realms of fine art painting, sculpture, writing, masked performance and film.

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Hornby’s practice is shaped by his rural roots, the woods, the muddy ditches, the fields. From the years spent scrambling around as a child to his practice today, he is fascinated with artefact conjuring narrative. He peels back the psycho-geography behind a landscape, using the cycle of human mortality and the stories that come with it to build his own museums.

His paintings and sculptures are lead first and foremost by found objects and their stories. Merged together and embellished using oils and sculptural manipulation both constructive and destructive. Hornby regularly experiments with filmmaking and sound to contextualise the world which he is building.

Whilst his mark-making is rooted in landscape and abstract figurativism, it also embraces motions of the gestural and the delicate together. It presents wisping spectres alongside energetic splatters and matted piles on canvases. He engages with forgotten case studies of a familiar yet unplaceable time, dissecting the nuance between painting, relic, sculpture and furniture. With both violence and tenderness, he cuts through the spectres with pale and bold brush strokes creating gangly landscapes and crumpled bodily forms. Employing an almost necromantic attitude towards his paint making, both macabre and primal. Fabricating a reality of ritual, age, decay and rebirth. One we can use as a mirror to explore the darker elements of our own. His work embraces the grotesque, the abandoned and the beauty of both. A tool which he uses to study life, but ultimately as a tool confront the inevitable process of death.